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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mma 1022</font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As Ukraine successfully pushes back invading forces,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> OAN is staying faithful to the Russian state propaganda edifice.</span></b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN is spoon-feeding its viewers Kremlin-backed war propaganda and reports from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-russian-news-agency-berlin-faces-staff-exodus-over-ukraine-invasion-2022-02-28/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">state-owned</a>&nbsp;network&nbsp;<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612221082052" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Ruptly</a>. Recently, the far-right network portrayed the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/23/europe/occupied-ukraine-referendum-russia-intl-hnk/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sham referendum</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-middle-east-syria-united-nations-fd7ede16dec560ebb49f9465644de1b1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">illegal annexation</a>&nbsp;of Ukrainian territories as legitimate; accused the U.S. and Ukraine, without evidence, of sabotaging the&nbsp;<a href="https://cepa.org/article/conspiracy-theorists-right-wing-politicians-fuel-nord-stream-disinformation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Nord Stream gas pipeline</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/13/1128625322/crimea-bridge-attack-theories" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">bombing Crimea’s Kerch bridge</a>; aired antisemitic conspiracy theories about Western globalists trying to control Russia; and claimed Ukraine is dangerously escalating the war simply by defending its territory.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This pattern of pro-Russia coverage follows OAN’s&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/statedept/status/1484292153102585856?lang=en" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">notable</a>&nbsp;history of&nbsp;<a href="https://deadline.com/2021/08/rachel-maddow-msnbc-beat-oan-lawsuit-appeal-robert-herring-1234816713/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">acting</a>&nbsp;as a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-new-favorite-network-oann-embraces-russian-propaganda" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">mouthpiece</a>&nbsp;for Russian&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.today/20190531160951/https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-hell-of-working-at-trumps-new-favorite-tv-channel-one-america-news-network" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">propaganda</a>. Both a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-trumps-new-favorite-channel-employs-kremlin-paid-journalist" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">former correspondent</a>&nbsp;and a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-sweatte-60ab71111?miniProfileUrn=urn%3Ali%3Afs_miniProfile%3AACoAABwdVSoBNgcprg08tJem0m3hCW_pgntanzk&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_search_srp_people%3BMhubx6CDRM24Or8cpDMZaw%3D%3D" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">more recent hire</a>&nbsp;of OAN's previously worked for Russian state-owned media outlets. After the invasion of Ukraine,&nbsp;<b>OAN hosts promoted Kremlin-sponsored conspiracy theories about Western “biolabs” and Ukraine&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-health-europe-c0f2f859296f9f02be24fc9edfca1085" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">bombing</a>&nbsp;its own hospitals while guests&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3985273" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a>&nbsp;that “Ukraine is not a real country” and that it’s just “a giant money-pot laundering scheme for the elites.”</b></span><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The network’s more recent coverage is part of a right-wing effort to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/conservative-medias-love-putin-continues-even-after-his-invasion-ukraine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">defend</a>&nbsp;Russian President Vladimir Putin by convincing viewers Russia’s invasion is not actually an invasion:</font></p><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN coverage relies on Russian state-owned outlet Ruptly</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">OAN has relied on reporting and footage from Russian&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-russian-news-agency-berlin-faces-staff-exodus-over-ukraine-invasion-2022-02-28/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">state-owned</a>&nbsp;network&nbsp;<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/19401612221082052" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Ruptly</a>&nbsp;on numerous occasions.</span>&nbsp;A<b>lthough Ruptly&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newsguardtech.com/feedback/publisher/ruptly-tv/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">maintains</a>&nbsp;that it is an independent organization and merely a sister agency of now-defunct Russia Today, or RT,&nbsp;</b>Ruptly and its&nbsp;<a href="https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/russias-maturing-information-manipulation-playbook/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">subsidiaries</a>&nbsp;lack an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Kremlin-Funded-Media_January_update-19.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">independent news charter</a>&nbsp;and have a history of publishing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/facebook-blocks-russia-backed-accounts-other-sites-keep-churning-out-n1242683" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">manipulated</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://observers.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20211001-the-pro-russian-propaganda-hiding-in-your-tiktok-feed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reports</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40647061" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sourcing</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.stopfake.org/en/british-citizen-exposed-as-a-tool-of-russia-s-fsb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">from</a>&nbsp;journalists backed by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/tag/fsb/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Russia’s state security agency</a>. The U.K. recently&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/foreign-secretary-announces-sanctions-on-putins-propaganda--2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sanctioned</a>&nbsp;Ruptly’s founding station,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Kremlin-Funded-Media_January_update-19.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Tv-Novosti</a>, for pushing Russian state propaganda.&nbsp;</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN cited Ruptly in at least 7 reports about the conflict in September, which it repeatedly re-aired for audiences.&nbsp;</strong>The network has also cited Ruptly in reports about European foreign policy tangentially related to the conflict, including an update on the ISIS Kabul terrorist attack and a&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221011185107/https://www.ruptly.tv/en/videos/20220922-049-un-serbian-pm-vucic-denounces-double-standards-at-unga?search_key=cb91440e-6990-4432-b4b9-1b8a50d3b642" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">report</a>&nbsp;about Serbian President Vučić’s speech to the U.N., which “supports ‘territorial integrity’ of Ukraine but it did not respect territorial integrity of Serbia when NATO bombed Belgrade in 1999.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995050" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/5/22</a>,<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995448" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">&nbsp;9/22/22]</a></font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN played&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221011190423/https://www.ruptly.tv/en/videos/20220921-015-russia-vladimir-putin-declares-partial-military-mobilisation?search_key=deef93fe-2ff8-4c81-ad60-40a3325218cc" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Ruptly footage</a>&nbsp;while reporting that Putin “is not bluffing” about nuclear strikes after “top NATO officials said it would be acceptable to carry out nuclear strikes on Russia.”&nbsp;</strong>In doing so, OAN legitimized the Russian president’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-nato-chief-says-putins-ukraine-escalation-dangerous-reckless-2022-09-21/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">vague allegation</a>&nbsp;against top government officials in several unnamed NATO countries. [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994864" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/21/22</a>] [Ruptly,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ruptly.tv/en/videos/20220921-015-Russia-Vladimir-Putin-declares-partial-military-mobilisation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/21/2022</a>]</font></li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN claimed that “the Biden administration is bolstering its anti-Russia position” by nominating Armenian Ambassador Lynne Tracy to be Russian ambassador.</strong>&nbsp;The report, which contained footage from Ruptly, claimed that the White House will do “whatever it takes to help Ukraine topple the larger Russia.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994867" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/21/22</a>]</font></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN defended Russia’s illegal referendums and subsequent annexation of Ukrainian regions as legitimate</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Late last month, Russia organized&nbsp;<a href="https://www.gpb.org/news/2022/09/23/russia-begins-annexation-vote-illegal-under-international-law-in-occupied-ukraine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">sham referendums</a>&nbsp;in Ukraine’s occupied Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions in order to annex them and claim that the invaded regions are now&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/28/russia-set-to-annex-ukraine-regions-after-sham-vote" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">legally Russian territory</a>.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">OAN privileged the Kremlin narrative that these elections were free and legal over&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-annexation-votes-end-amid-russian-mobilisation-exodus-2022-09-26/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">widespread</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/world/europe/ukraine-russia-referendums-annexation.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reporting</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfX8s7kk3_8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">testimony</a>&nbsp;from residents of the occupied territory revealing a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/9/20/russia-unfolds-annexation-plan-for-ukraine" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hastily organized</a>&nbsp;election devoid of ballot secrecy and&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-referendums-donetsk-5531dbd74e48382c5dbb04d70ac7233f" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">marred</a>&nbsp;by the threat of violence — including video of poll workers&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63013356" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">flanked</a>&nbsp;by armed soldiers going door to door collecting votes.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some of OAN’s so-called news reports pushed claims that countries that are refusing to recognize the illegal referendums and annexation of an anti-Russia bias. This narrative ignores&nbsp;<a href="https://usun.usmission.gov/explanation-of-vote-before-the-vote-on-a-un-security-council-resolution-condemning-russias-sham-referenda-in-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">international</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1128161" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">condemnation</a>&nbsp;of Russia’s ongoing invasion and annexation of Ukraine and promotes Putin’s increasingly antagonistic framework that this invasion is part of Russia’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/30/world/russia-ukraine-war-news" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">existential battle</a>&nbsp;against the West.&nbsp;</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994788" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reported</a>, “According to [a] local mayor, polls show residents of Russian-controlled areas of Ukraine are supporting the proposal to join Russia.”</strong>&nbsp;The report relied on Ruptly&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221011190235/https://www.ruptly.tv/en/videos/20220920-039-dpr-long-overdue-donetsk-residents-speak-about-referendum-on-joining-russia?search_key=2b6116fb-104a-4add-b87c-4d196fe40c69" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">footage</a>&nbsp;of civilians positively discussing the illegal annexation. The host repeated Russia’s warning that if these areas join Russia, “any attacks on them will mean an attack on Russia and its national security.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994788" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/24/22</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN claimed the Biden administration and Ukrainian president are “denying the election results” by not legitimizing the illegal referendum</span>.</strong>&nbsp;OAN took the suspicious&nbsp;results of the referendum at face value, noting that “officials say residents overwhelmingly support annexation, with one territory garnering the lowest support at 87% and another collecting 99% support.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Breaking News Live</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994838" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/28/22</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>&nbsp;reported, “The U.S. and its allies did not recognize the results of the vote, but Russian officials say that such statements are based off anti-Russian bias in the West."</strong>&nbsp;The report, which aired after the “majority of local residents voted to join Russia,” failed to mention the vote violated international and Ukrainian law, was overseen by armed guards, and lacked ballot secrecy. Instead, OAN reported that the speaker of the Russian parliament said annexation “is necessary to defend their Russian population from the Kyiv government.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Breaking News Live</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994841" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/3/22</a>]</font></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN blamed the West for the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage and Kerch bridge explosion without evidence</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Three separate&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/27/world/europe/pipeline-leak-russia-nord-stream.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">ruptures</a>&nbsp;in the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines sparked an international blame game between Russia, Ukraine, and Ukrainian allies, including the United States. Online conspiracy theorists and right-wing outlets like OAN parroted the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/u-s-podcasters-spread-kremlin-narratives-on-nord-stream-sabotage/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Russian</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sabotage-of-pipelines-were-a-warning-shot-from-putin-experts-2022-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">narrative</a>&nbsp;and pointed fingers at the United States and its allies with no evidence. Some programming even used the allegations to validate Putin’s threats of nuclear war.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN’s reaction to an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/12/europe/russia-ukraine-crimea-bridge-arrests-intl/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">explosion</a>&nbsp;that damaged the Kerch bridge, a strategic connection between the Crimean Peninsula and Russia’s mainland, followed a similar pattern. The network advanced a Kremlin allegation that Ukraine was behind the explosion&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/10/12/1128338004/crimea-kerch-bridge-explosion-arrests-ukraine-denies-involvement" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">without evidence</a>, which Putin used to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/10/russia-ukraine-war-latest-updates/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">justify</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/10/europe/ukraine-kyiv-missile-strikes-russia-intl/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">airstrikes</a>&nbsp;across Ukraine. OAN unquestioningly promoted Putin’s claim as fact.&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN guest Douglas Macgregor s</span>aid the U.S. “probably approved this or had a role in” the Nord Stream pipeline explosions.</strong>&nbsp;Asked by host Dan Ball about “this sabotage thing,” Macgregor added, without evidence, “Well, we know with absolute certainty that the Russians did not do it.” Macgregor, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has a history of pushing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-tv-tells-ukraine-to-listen-to-fox-news-guest-doug-macgregor-and-kneel-to-vladimir-putin" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">pro-Russian</a>&nbsp;talking points in right-wing media. [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Real America</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994454" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/28/22</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tipping Point&nbsp;</em>guest Pedro Gonzalez reacted to the pipeline explosion: “It really does look like the West did this.”&nbsp;</strong>Gonzalez, a senior writer at far-right Chronicles magazine, also framed nuclear warfare as a legitimate response to “an escalation that involves NATO,” saying that “Russia really has no other alternative. … The only option it has is to escalate to nuclear warfare, right?” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tipping Point</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//www.mediamatters.org/media/3994770%22" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/30/22</a>]&nbsp;</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Host Kara McKinney inferred that the U.S. might have sabotaged the pipeline because Biden once said he wanted to end the Nord Stream pipeline.</strong>&nbsp;The&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tipping Point</em>&nbsp;host also claimed it would have been too hard for Russia to attack the pipelines itself.&nbsp;[One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tipping Point</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994772" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/29/22</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN’s Addison Smith said it “does not make sense to the rational mind” that Russia would sabotage Nord Stream pipelines: “What does make sense is that the United States might be responsible.”</strong>&nbsp;Smith also cited Biden’s comments about ending the pipeline, claiming, “We have evidence that the U.S. could be behind this Nord Stream sabotage — definitely more evidence than anyone has of Russia being responsible.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Focus</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994975" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/6/22</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">After the Kerch bridge explosion,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>&nbsp;reported that Russia “targeted Ukraine’s energy infrastructure,&nbsp;a move Russian officials say was in retaliation against Ukraine's attack destroying the Crimean bridge over the weekend.”&nbsp;</strong>OAN moved on without clarifying there is no definitive evidence Ukraine was behind the explosion or mentioning that global leaders&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2022/oct/10/russia-ukraine-war-live-news-putin-russian-security-council-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-power-plant-hit-again-latest-updates" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">condemned</a>&nbsp;Putin’s so-called retaliatory strikes, which killed at least 11 people. [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995135" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/11/22</a>]</font></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN absolved Russia of blame for the war, faulting “globalists” instead &nbsp;</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">OAN’s quest to absolve Russia and justify its invasion has in some cases devolved into&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-origins-of-the-globalist-slur/555479/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">antisemitic conspiracy</a>&nbsp;theories. Network hosts pushed claims that “globalists” provoked Russia and plunged the world into Armageddon in order to seize power and targeted the right’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49584157" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">favorite Jewish boogeyman</a>, Holocaust survivor and pro-democracy philanthropist&nbsp;<b>George Soros.&nbsp;</b>Putin has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/22/putin-golden-billion-russia/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">referenced</a>&nbsp;the conspiracy theory in speeches meant to&nbsp;<a href="https://thedispatch.com/article/vladimir-putin-plays-the-globalism/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">court</a>&nbsp;right-wing populists,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/25/vladimir-putin-ukraine-attack-antisemitism-denazify" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">justify</a>&nbsp;the invasion, and&nbsp;<a href="https://warontherocks.com/2022/03/how-are-putins-far-right-fans-in-the-west-reacting-to-his-war/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">reduce</a>&nbsp;support for Ukraine. OAN’s coverage follows suit. [oct 13 vid]</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">correspondent </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Pearson Sharp: </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“This war was manufactured from the beginning by the globalists and the tyrants in Washington and designed specifically to cripple our economy and plunge the world into a massive depression, which would help centralize the globalists’ power.</span>”<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">&nbsp;</span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Sharp used out-of-context clips from the “<b>globalist puppet master himself, George Soros,”</b> to trying to prove that “they are<b> trying to provoke Russia into starting Armageddon,</b>” even though “none of this has anything to do with Russia invading Ukraine.</span>” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995215" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/13/22</a>]&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN host Chanel Rion: “The left needs a world war.&nbsp;</span>It's the only thing that can save them at this point. Biden's approval numbers and in turn the entire leftist globalist agenda is in burn-in-hell territory.”</strong>&nbsp;Rion told viewers that “the globalist left have been begging for this World War III showdown,” perhaps partly because they want to “divide and plunder Russia.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Weekly Briefing</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995035" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/9/22</a>]&nbsp;</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN guest Dave Brat warned: “The big-money folks, right, who you don't know — the globalist forces — want to rule and they don't care at all about the American people.”</span>&nbsp;</strong>He continued by saying that globalists want to get rid of Russia and the United States. Host Addison Smith responded by pointing his finger at Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), saying, “Of course people like Dan Crenshaw want a war in Ukraine to go on. They want us to get involved in the war. It all comes down to money.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Focus</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995232" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/11/22</a>]</font></li></ul><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN promoted Russian allegations of Ukrainian aggression, justifying Russia’s violent invasion</font></h3><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN uncritically advanced Russian propaganda demonizing Ukrainian attempts to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/politics/ukraine-russia-pentagon.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">take back&nbsp;</a>illegally seized territories while depicting Putin as defending Russian lands and their inhabitants against Ukraine. Though Putin has&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-signs-decree-mobilisation-says-west-wants-destroy-russia-2022-09-21/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">issued</a>&nbsp;nuclear threats,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/23/russia-ukraine-war-putins-nuclear-threats-raise-the-risk-of-disaster.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">escalated</a>&nbsp;global tensions, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2022/2/26/putin-redrawing-borders-rewriting-history" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">mythologized</a>&nbsp;Russia’s own history of state-based repression, OAN falsely claimed Ukraine is a&nbsp;<a href="https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/ukraine-becomes-a-totalitarian-state" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">totalitarian state</a>&nbsp;run by a dangerous warmonger, President Volodymyr Zelensky, dead-set on dragging the world into nuclear Armageddon.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This coverage serves no purpose aside from&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/25/technology/russia-supporters.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">helping</a>&nbsp;Putin turn his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/09/21/world/russia-ukraine-war-putin" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">unpopular</a>&nbsp;military incursion&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/20/vladimir-putin-escalation-ukraine-nuclear-war-annexation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">into</a>&nbsp;a defensive war and poisoning support for Ukraine by muddying&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/russias-invasion-ukraine/american-media-need-admit-imposing-no-fly-zone-over-ukraine-would-mean" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">legitimate criticism</a>&nbsp;about reckless military spending with Kremlin&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/25/opinion/putin-russia-conspiracy-theories.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conspiracy theories</a>.&nbsp;</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">A day after Ukrainian officials clarified that Zelensky’s comments about “preemptive strikes” against Russia were about sanctions, not nuclear strikes, OAN host Addison Smith said, “I don't think he misspoke, William. I think he meant what he said.”&nbsp;</strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Smith’s guest then used the&nbsp;<a href="https://kyivindependent.com/news-feed/zelenskys-staff-forced-to-clarify-statement-after-president-suggests-preventive-strike-on-russia" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">miscommunication</a>&nbsp;to paint Zelensky as an “irresponsible”&nbsp;warmonger</span>. [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Focus</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995126" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">10/7/22</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Relying on Ruptly footage, OAN news hosts reported that “authorities in Donetsk People's Republic said the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ukrainian government is targeting civilians with Western weapons” adding that they say this is “an attempt to convince local residents that Moscow cannot protect them</span>.”</strong>&nbsp;Russian state propagandists have&nbsp;<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/maria-butina-russian-agent-says-ukraine-bombing-itself-1318782/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">promoted</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60571737" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">false claims</a>&nbsp;about Ukraine attacking its own civilians in order to rationalize the invasion. Four days after this report aired, United Nations&nbsp;<a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127691" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">investigators</a>&nbsp;concluded that “war crimes have been committed in Ukraine,” including Russian attacks carried out “without distinguishing between civilians and combatants.” [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Breaking News Live</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994833" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/19/22</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN legitimized Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s claims that Ukraine “has become a completely totalitarian, Nazi-like state” and “Western supporters of Ukraine are trying to extend the conflict for as long as possible in hopes to weaken Russia.”&nbsp;</strong>The report, which contained Ruptly footage, failed to mention that far-right neo-Nazis are not politically strong in Ukraine,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">rarely exceeding</a>&nbsp;3% of the popular vote</span>. [One America News,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">One America News</em>,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3994845" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">9/22/22</a>]</font></li></ul></div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no sharp?</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/ahead-midterms-oan-declares-fight-between-good-vs-evil-save-us-democrats">https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network<b>/ahead-midterms-oan-declares-fight-between-good-vs-evil-save-us-democrats</b></a></font></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">one America News Network is a known hub for extreme right-wing opinion, but the network has gone even further to fan the flames in recent weeks leading up to the midterm elections. OAN talent and guests have used&nbsp;<b>increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric to describe the stakes of the country continuing under Democrats’ “progressive liberal woke agenda” to “tear down and destroy everything good about America.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is often a mix of “political correct woke” headlines or the simple existence of a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House that prompts an outburst of anger from OAN personalities directed at&nbsp;<b>“true communism” and its “destruction of the greatest country this world has ever known</b>.” For example, green energy policy is portrayed as a question of “whether or not America will be a sovereign nation.” Hospitals providing care to trans people are examples of the&nbsp;<b>“evil in our midst” during “a spiritual battle.” And investigations of former President Donald Trump are part of “a long struggle” going back to those who “first settled this land.”</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">OAN’s overt partisanship and lack of journalistic standards are a perfect setup for the network to rhetorically increase the stakes of the midterm elections<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. The network has already shown a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/one-america-news-promoting-election-deniers-running-key-state-executive" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">preference</a>&nbsp;for candidates who deny the 2020 election, and expressed its&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oans-agenda-potential-republican-congress" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">hopes</a>&nbsp;— if Republicans take control of Congress — &nbsp;for punitive investigations of the right’s political enemies and&nbsp;<b>legislative attacks on trans</b>&nbsp;people.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Taken together with dire warnings of national annihilation under Democratic rule, OAN’s coverage in the lead-up to midterms is arguing that “America First” candidates must win in November to pursue vindictive, extremist policies to save the country from the “woke agenda.”</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">In a nearly 11-minute monologue, OAN host Dan Ball introduced his September 26 interview with Trump by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995385" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">asking</a>&nbsp;his audience a pointed question: “Where did my America go?”</strong>&nbsp;Ball continued, claiming that “the progressive liberal woke agenda” has been “creeping into our country for years now” and seeking to “destroy the very fabric of our nation.</span>” Faced with this omnipresent threat, Ball warned that “we need millions of voices standing up and saying, ‘No more.’ No more of this destruction of the greatest country this world has ever known.” Declaring that the U.S. is “on the precipice” of falling to “true communism,” Ball told the audience, “This is a fight between good versus evil. So which side are you on?"</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[vid]</font></strong></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">judicial Watch founder Larry Klayman&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-guest-larry-klayman-country-needs-understand-we-are-war" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told</a>&nbsp;OAN’s&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Focus</em>&nbsp;on September 20 that “the country needs to understand that we are at war.”</strong>&nbsp;He warned that “January 6 will look like a warm-up act. In fact, that wasn't violent. ... But next time it's going to be like the storming of the Bastille.</span>”</font></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN guest Lee Smith&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995382" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a>&nbsp;that fighting the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“corruption,” “criminality,” and “psychosis” of the Biden administration&nbsp;</span>is part of “a long struggle that we’re involved in as Americans.”</strong>&nbsp;Smith, the conservative author of&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Permanent Coup</em>, claimed that in this generational conflict, “we are standing on the shoulders of our ancestors, the champions — American champions — who first settled this land, all the way down to our own parents. They're watching how we discipline ourselves. They're watching our resolve, our resilience, and determination. And our children will tell stories of it in the future.”&nbsp;</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN guest Greg Price&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995386" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a>&nbsp;that&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“we are up against truly evil people who will do anything for power and do anything to destroy our country. They’re decaying our culture every single day, and the bottom line is we need to do something to stop it.”</span></strong>&nbsp;Price, a former Daily Caller writer, added that “there is no limited-government solution to a lot of these problems,” and “when we take back power” in November, Republicans must begin “getting out of their comfort zone and … using power in ways that help your voters and deliver wins for your side.”</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">In Focus</em>&nbsp;host Addison Smith&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995384" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>&nbsp;that “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">our nation is hanging by a thread” over the question of “whether or not America will be a sovereign nation.”</span></strong>&nbsp;“If we lose our sovereignty,” Smith worried, “we lose everything else along with it, including our economic system, including our culture and traditions and our religious underpinning.” After claiming that “nationalism necessarily builds societies — it has built this society, it has built the West,” Smith added that “while communism can certainly wreak untold havoc on it, globalism is the only thing that can thoroughly destroy it." [sept 19 vid]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">former Fox Nation host Lara Logan&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-lara-logan-claims-migrants-are-part-globalist-plan-unified-government" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">told</a>&nbsp;Ball that Democrats are “implementing a globalist policy” that is “completely in violation of the Constitution,” ultimately “infiltrating 100 million people into the United States as the basis for forming a regional government instead of a national government</span>.”</strong>&nbsp;Ball agreed that “we’re not talking about the Great Reset” enough, or “how they’re changing the fabric of this nation and what they’re attempting to do.” Logan raised the stakes, adding that “this isn't just about the fall of America and the West. This is about the end of life as we have known it.”&nbsp;</font></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Interviewing an anti-trans filmmaker and fearmongering about gender-affirming care for trans youth, OAN host<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Dan Ball&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995387" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">announced</a>, “This push on our kids is demonic and disgusting.”</span></strong><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;“There is a spiritual battle going on,”</span>&nbsp;said&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Real America</em>&nbsp;guest Frank Panico. “We’re made in God’s image, and the evil one wants to destroy that, whether it be through abortion, or suicide,” or health care for trans people, Panico said, followed by a litany of anti-trans comments.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Claiming the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">right needs to “go on offense” and “make stuff like this illegal,” OAN’s Smith&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995388" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>&nbsp;that health care for trans youth, “along with abortion, is the most evil thing that our country is doing to children.</span>”</strong>&nbsp;Discussing another hospital&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/libs-tiktok/right-wing-medias-campaign-against-childrens-hospitals-making-it-harder-trans-people" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">targeted</a>&nbsp;by right-wing media for providing gender-affirming care, Newsweek opinion editor Josh Hammer claimed that health care for trans youth is an example of “evil in our midst, and we shouldn’t hesitate to call it evil. … This ought to be the kind of thing to wake up our side in a real call-to-arms moment.”&nbsp;</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">OAN correspondent Pearson Sharp&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995392" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claimed</a>&nbsp;the war in Ukraine “was manufactured from the beginning by the globalists and the tyrants in Washington, and designed specifically to cripple our economy and plunge the world into a massive depression.”</strong>&nbsp;Sharp asked OAN viewers: “Are you paying attention? They are trying to start World War III. They are trying to provoke Russia into starting armageddon. Why? Power. Power, and control." [oct 13 vid]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">'this whole political correct woke movement in this country is going to get people killed,” Ball&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995389" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">declared</a>.&nbsp;</strong>“</span>It's ruining our country, and some day, folks, mark my words, it will lead to the&nbsp;<b>destruction of America as we know it.</b>” Complaining about a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/navy-seal-tear-gas-video-investigation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">report</a>&nbsp;that Navy SEAL training may be abusive to recruits, Ball said, “You need brave, bad-ass men willing to pick up that rifle, head into harm's way, and keep us safe. And if we lose that, my fellow Americans, well, we're doomed.”</font></li></ul></div></div><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--stories-text paragraph--view-mode--editorial" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="fancy-elems-wrapper field field--name-field-stories-text-formatted field--type-text-long field--label-hidden fielditem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fearmongering about polyamory,&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tipping Point</em>&nbsp;host Kara McKinney&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/3995391" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>: “Back when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage in Obergefell in 2015, anyone who wisely pointed out that destroying the natural, God-given reality of marriage being between one man and one woman would lead to man-made horrors beyond our wildest imaginations were laughed out of the room, even by some on the right. Yet each new day, we're vindicated."</font></strong></p></li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Although life as we know it does face existential threats — perhaps most prominently from climate change — OAN saves its cataclysmic warnings for an America that remains under Democratic Party control after November.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">//</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">OAN host blames the sexual revolution for “incel” mass shootings</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">10/19/22&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">OAN will repeatedly air the debunked 2000 Mules movie ahead of the midterms</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">10/11/22&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">OAN interview baselessly claims FBI planted child pornography on NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere during investigation</font></p></div></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></font></font></font></div><div>
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</div><div>the 2020 presidential election was 693 days ago, and One America News Network is still a major hub for both denying the reality of 2020 and projecting conspiracy theories onto future elections.</div><div>
</div><div>Since June, OAN’s election fraud coverage has continued to hinge on hosts’ and guests’ repeated denials of the fairness of the 2020 election. It has included everything from claims that the ballot counts were tampered with to continued promotion of Dinesh D'Souza's ridiculous 2000 Mules documentary. And despite an ongoing $1.6 billion defamation suit, OAN has even proclaimed that “we were right” about Dominion Voting Systems.</div><div>
</div><div>With the stolen election as bedrock, OAN is looking grimly toward the future, with paranoid warnings that the Democrats will now use TikTok, postal unions, and their October surprise — “the next COVID election variant” — to cheat in the midterms and beyond. All this as the supposedly “Stalinesque” FBI runs interference for President Joe Biden’s political goals with actions like seizing MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s cell phone.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>OAN’s stolen election cinematic universe remains as rich with misinformation as ever, and they're hoping their viewers get involved. As Steve Bannon put it during an appearance on the network, “It’s all about … whether this audience, whether this audience turns out and brings people with it, and becomes poll workers, election judges, election officials, and also force multipliers to get everybody to the polls."</div><div>
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</div><div>oAN is still denying the 2020 election</div><div>
</div><div>The late astronomer Carl Sagan said, “If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” Similarly, OAN’s entire library of election fraud-related content cannot exist without the invention of the stolen 2020 election. Although it occurred nearly two years ago, the network maintains a steady churn of weak theories and paranoid concerns about the 2020 election.</div><div>
</div><div>OAN correspondent Pearson Sharp reported that “there’s been no end to evidence pointing to massive and widespread voting fraud” won the 2020 election for Biden. Upon rediscovering old evidence of concerns about voting machine security, Sharp declared that “we were right” about Dominion Voting Systems. [OAN, 9/21/22]</div><div>In an OAN interview, Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) praised Dinesh D’Souza’s 2000 Mules and said the discredited movie’s findings merit investigation: “It sure seemed suspicious to me. And I think it’s important for election integrity, so we know if there are any loopholes, gaps in our election integrity system so we can fix them.” [OAN, 9/13/22; The Washington Post, 5/17/22]</div><div>Tipping Point hosted discredited gun researcher John Lott to suggest that sloppy record-keeping by populous counties was covering up 2020 election fraud. Lott claimed that, in Cobb County, GA, “there was a difference of about 34,000 votes between the number of ballots cast and number of voters who voted. That's bigger -- that’s three times, more than three times Biden's winning margin in the state just from that one county.” [OAN, Tipping Point, 9/8/22; MMFA, 9/18/19]</div><div>OAN covered alleged new “voter irregularities” in the 2020 election in New Jersey -- a state Biden won by over 15 points -- including claims of people born between 1800 and 1899 voting, as well as people under 18 voting, and tens of thousands of people voting more than once. There was no actual proof that these illegal votes happened, and no acknowledgement of other potential explanations. [OAN, 7/28/22; 270toWin, 12/13/20]</div><div>With The Federalist’s Margot Cleveland, Tipping Point host Kara McKinney whined about the January 6 committee ignoring “verified evidence” of broken election laws that, McKinney and Cleveland suggested, could support Trump’s election fraud lies and inspire sympathy for January 6 insurrectionists. Cleveland added that “systematic” and “widespread” 2020 problems like these, and that few of them were resolved, “are the reasons that people do not have faith in the outcome of the elections.” [OAN, Tipping Point, 6/22/22]</div><div>Tipping Point guest and radio host Andrea Kaye, on a former Democratic congressman who pled guilty to election fraud charges: “That seems so detailed, it’s kind of far-fetched for me to think that it’s just this one dude and this one or two judges. I mean, where did they cook up this scheme? I mean, do they not have, like, this kind of fraud-rigging classes going on across the country?” [Tipping Point, 6/13/22]</div><div>The Thomas More Society’s Thor Hearne misleadingly told McKinney that Zuckerberg spent millions on funding election processes, and “he’s not a stupid person. He expects a return for his money. He wanted to get a particular outcome in this election, and that’s the way he spent the money,” insinuating that Zuckerberg bought the presidency for Biden. [Tipping Point, 6/9/22; NBC News, 9/8/22]</div><div>After a report on software vulnerabilities in voting machines, Ball incredulously commented that a cybersecurity company said, “The software can be hacked … however, they don’t believe any of that happened in 2020.” Ball asked viewers to note the manufacturer of the machines in question: “Dominion Voting Systems.” [OAN, Real America, 6/6/22; Associated Press, 6/1/22]</div><div>OAN pushed to make a former San Luis, Arizona, mayor’s guilty plea for ballot fraud into a smoking gun for widespread election fraud as alleged in 2000 Mules, with White House correspondent Chanel Rion derisively noting that the “so-called fact checkers” ascribe her plea and the movie’s release to “mere coincidences.” According to The Washington Post however, it is “not evidence of any massive ballot-harvesting effort.” [OAN, 6/6/22, 6/6/22; OAN, Real America, 6/6/22; The Washington Post, 6/3/22]</div><div>OAN is spreading conspiracy theories about future elections</div><div>Not just focused on relitigating the past, OAN has also applied a similar conspiracy theory mindset to the upcoming 2022 midterm and 2024 presidential elections, already warning about a wide variety of ways the Democrats will allegedly cheat.&nbsp;</div><div>In Focus asked right-wing activist J. Christian Adams about Democrats allegedly trying to keep “26,000 dead people on the Michigan voter rolls,” among other “verified nefarious activity and fraudulent voting.” Adams replied that “if you have dead voters on the voter rolls, and you’re mailing ballots, it’s a prescription for disaster.” [OAN, In Focus, 9/7/22]</div><div>Ball spun TikTok’s participation in the Federal Voting Assistance Program as a proxy for the Chinese government to access Americans’ data and steal the 2022 midterms for Democrats. His guest, Ken Cuccinelli, replied that “we did whittle down our problems in elections to American problems by keeping these foreign entities out, and here they are inviting them in for misinformation and influence.” Ball then suggested that Biden, whose ties to China are allegedly proven by his son Hunter Biden’s laptop, is using “the CCP’s TikTok” to steal the midterms. [OAN, Real America, 8/22/22; TikTok, 8/17/22]</div><div>Citing a Federalist article, Tipping Point suggested that a U.S. postal service workers’ union could conspire to aid Biden in the 2022 and 2024 elections “by either delaying ballots to Republican-heavy areas or by interfering with mailed campaign material,” while also noting that USPS has a new division specifically dedicated to election mail. [OAN, Tipping Point, 8/16/22]</div><div>Tipping Point suggested that former attorney general Eric Holder was recruiting Democrats to fix future elections under the guise of being poll workers. Said McKinney, “I thought election monitors were supposed to be neutral, unbiased, or is this the new normal for Democrat-controlled elections after they used COVID to get their way and to really cement that way?” Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington replied that “they don’t want to muck up the process that they have right now, which is systemic widespread fraud.” [OAN, Tipping Point, 8/11/22]</div><div>Sharp warned that “the Democrats are planning on stealing the midterms” and they will do so by using “the next COVID election variant” to encourage mail-in voting: “It’s a tried and true formula, and they got away with it last time. Why not do it again? Who’s going to stop them? The Republicans? … Bring back the COVID hysteria, but for all the crises -- China virus, Ukraine, monkeypox and who knows what else – before November.” [OAN, 8/4/22]</div><div>On In Focus, Harrington claimed that “the midterms are coming, so they need to roll out the next new variant. … They need a new variant for the new mail-ins.” Harrington continued, “This is the only thing they can do. In 2020 they used COVID to cheat on a massive scale. … This is political, this is trying to manipulate the process once again, and lay down the groundwork to cheat, and have a fallback plan when the elections don’t go their way.” [OAN, In Focus, 7/14/22]</div><div>
</div><div><b>OAN is pushing for action on these conspiracy theories</b></div><div>With such fervent belief in these conspiracy theories, OAN has also called for something to be done about them. Additionally, the network has celebrated candidates and officeholders who purportedly combat voter or election fraud, hoped for advantageous outcomes, and defended Lindell from “Biden’s Stasi” over his prominent 2020 conspiracy theories.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>Sharp complained that the FBI “gestapo agents” had found Lindell, </b>“tracked him, hunted him down, and surrounded him while he was having breakfast. … This is the Stalinesque disease that has infected America.” Sharp further warned that the U.S. is “slipping into fascism” and, “If the cowardly Republicans in Washington don't take a stand against this now and put an end to it, there won't be anyone left to save them when Biden’s Stasi agents come knocking on their doors.” [OAN, 9/16/22]</div><div>
</div><div>Lindell went on Real America to say that the phone seizure was about his 2020 election conspiracy theories -- specifically, it was in relation to an alleged breach of Colorado voting machines -- and he said he told the FBI it had been “weaponize[d] … against one of your citizens.” Lindell continued, “I believe they did this so because we were getting cast vote records and everything, and they wanted to put fear into people not to talk to Mike Lindell again. Don't talk to Mike Lindell or you too could have -- you could be arrested or, or taken -- your phone taken in a drive-thru restaurant.” “This is gestapo-style stuff,” Ball added. [OAN, Real America, 9/15/22; The Washington Post, 9/14/22]</div><div>
</div><div>On OAN, Steve Bannon called for viewers to become poll workers to protect the 2022 red wave: “It’s all about … whether this audience, whether this audience turns out and brings people with it, and becomes poll workers, election judges, election officials, and also force multipliers to get everybody to the polls.” [OAN, 9/9/22]</div><div>OAN breathlessly covered Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announcing 20 arrests for voter fraud, claiming, “These people broke the law, voted illegally, and he’s holding them accountable for it. It’s quite literally all there is to it; this is fraudulent voting by definition. It’s not alleged or conspiratorial. It’s actual, illegal voting.” It was later reported that “several people who were arrested last week as part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’ voter fraud crackdown were notified by official government entities they were eligible to vote.” [OAN, In Focus, 8/19/22; Politico, 8/26/22]&nbsp;</div><div>“Election adviser” Harry Haury told OAN viewers to visit True The Vote’s website, a nonprofit that helped D’Souza gather data for 2000 Mules, “as a resource to anybody that’s interested,” as well as calling their election fraud hotline and donating money. [OAN, 8/15/22]&nbsp;</div><div>OAN promoted a pro-Trump social media site that lets users directly report supposed election fraud. CloutHub CEO Jeff Brain told OAN anchor Natasha Sweatte that reports and photos of alleged fraud are sent through the app to attorneys who can get the complaint “filed in court within minutes.” The attorneys in question appear to be related to The America Project, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit co-founded in part by former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne and retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, both extreme election conspiracy theorists. [MMFA, 8/8/22]</div><div>Real America hosted Michigan GOP secretary of state candidate Kristina Karamo because, Ball said, she was “fighting for election integrity.” Denouncing an effort to expand voting rights as corrupt, Karamo said that “these people are claiming to want to expand elections. No, they want to expand fraud in our elections.” [OAN, Real America, 7/24/22]</div><div>=</div><div>
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</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">PEARSON SHARP (CORRESPONDENT): Washington's proxy war against Russia claims another victim. Darya Dugina, an innocent journalist, who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.&nbsp;On Saturday night, Darya was killed in a massive explosion from a car bomb planted under her father's truck. Evidence suggests that bomb was meant for her father instead – the famous Russian political commentator Aleksandr Dugin, who also happens to be a close friend with president Vladimir Putin. Darya, like her father, has been adamantly opposed to the illegal, criminal, and unprovoked western aggression in eastern Europe, especially towards Russia. Over the last year, she has cemented her reputation as an independent&nbsp;<b>journalist fiercely critical of Joe Biden’s red regime, as well as his efforts to start World War III.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Her reporting took her across the war zones in Ukraine, where she even contributed to a documentary by One America News on the fighting at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol.&nbsp;Of course, you can't cover Joe Biden’s shadow war against Moscow without including his</span><b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">puppets in the corrupt Ukrainian government. Puppets like president Volodymyr Zelensky,&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">who’s been bought and paid for by George Soros.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">&nbsp;But tragically, truth-telling in journalism is rarely profitable, especially for an independent journalist, and Darya’s courageous reporting made her the target of some very powerful enemies.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">…</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Naturally, Ukraine is denying any involvement. In a very convincing speech, one of Zelensky's stooges protested that Ukraine couldn't be responsible for the assassination because Ukraine is not a criminal state.&nbsp;<b>No, Ukraine is just run by criminals who are financed by the greatest criminals on Earth, like George Soros</b>, and which works hand in hand with the criminals in the</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Biden crime syndicate</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">. No, no, no reason to suspect Ukraine.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">…</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SHARP: Following the brutal assassination, western governments drummed up their allies in the media to pump out attacks on Darya, with the BBC even pushing sickening reports trying to portray her death as justified. The New York Times ran a hit piece on Darya, trying to discredit her work and painting her as a pro-Russian radical, calling her an ultranationalist guilty of spreading misinformation about the war in Ukraine.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">But for anyone remotely familiar with Darya or her work, that's obviously fake news designed to cover up western war crimes in Ukraine, which Darya was fighting hard to expose.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">…</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">SHARP: These are scenes from the documentary she contributed to for One America News.&nbsp;<b>Darya described the war in Ukraine as the result of liberal fascism,&nbsp;</b>which by definition is exactly what it is.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">This is a conflict brought on by the liberals, the Democrats in Washington, as a result of the rampant fascism and their war to impose totalitarianism upon the entire world. Darya was absolutely right. And now, she's dead.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">…</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">SHARP: Ultimately, Darya will be remembered as a brave and courageous journalist, who took a stand for freedom, and for the innocent civilians suffering from the illegal wars of Washington. She exposed the crime and corruption behind these conflicts, and paid for it with her life.&nbsp;<b>One more casualty of the criminal war being waged by Joe Biden and his bloody regime.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">But as long as we keep her memory alive, and continue reporting the truth about what's happening in Ukraine, then that freedom and her struggle will never die. For One America News, I'm Pearson Sharp.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font color="#3a434e" face="bagatela, serif"><span style="font-size: 19.7354px;">OAN host uses Nazi youth book burning to push book banning</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font color="#3a434e" face="bagatela, serif"><span style="font-size: 19.7354px;">08/23/22&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font color="#3a434e" face="bagatela, serif"><span style="font-size: 19.7354px;">After Mar-a-Lago search, OAN calls attack on FBI office a false flag</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font color="#3a434e" face="bagatela, serif"><span style="font-size: 19.7354px;">08/15/22&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font color="#3a434e" face="bagatela, serif"><span style="font-size: 19.7354px;">OAN host reacts to FBI Mar-a-Lago search: “We are the closest to Civil War II we've ever been"</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font color="#3a434e" face="bagatela, serif"><span style="font-size: 19.7354px;">08/15/22&nbsp;</span></font></p></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8 22 rww</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">STELLA ESCOBEDO (HOST): The pre-dawn guns-drawn raid on President Donald Trump's house is a wake up call for America that the <b>Department of Justice has weaponized the FBI and is now actively targeting its political enemies. </b>One America's Pearson Sharp has more.&nbsp; &nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>PEARSON SHARP (CORRESPONDENT):</b> If you haven't gotten the picture yet, let me make it clear for you: C<b>onservatives are under a full scale attack in America. Our government has gone rogue, and the fascists in Washington are hunting down anyone and everyone who stands in their way. And number one on their list, the most hated, persecuted, attacked, harassed and targeted, and reviled person that the Communist Democrats must eliminate is President Donald Trump. Trump has to go. He is the biggest enemy of the radical left's agenda.</b> They've already tried to take him out five times now with phony accusations of Russian collusion, illegal surveillance and manufactured evidence. What else can they do?&nbsp;</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Well, they can raid the house of a former president. For those of you who don't get it, this is a colossal step. Something they can never come back from. Like Caesar crossing the Rubicon.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> It's not an exaggeration to say this could be the week that the American republic died.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> T<b>his is Trump derangement syndrome gone wild with Stalin-esque tactics being used by our own government. We don't have an FBI anymore. We have the KGB. We have secret police doing the bidding of their evil masters in Washington.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>At this point, I'm not even sure why they're bothering with a raid. They could just make up whatever dirt they wanted on Trump and the mainstream media would back them up. </b>I mean, that's what they did before,<b> five times</b>, and they got away with it every single time. And all of this for an alleged minor mishandling of documents which could have and should have been handled by Trump's legal team.&nbsp;But that misses the point entirely, <b>Christopher Wray's Gestapo agents specifically targeted Trump over classified documents because under US Code Title 18, Section 2071, Trump would then be barred from ever holding office again. There is absolutely no way Biden wasn't aware of this.&nbsp;</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Oh, and by the way, after this raid,<b> Biden's disgraced son was seen boarding a plane with him Wednesday</b> for a week long beach vacation in South Carolina. On top of all of this, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals just ruled the IRS must turn over President Trump's tax returns to the House Ways and Means Committee, giving them another angle to try and finish him off.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>This is flat-out war. If they're this terrified of Trump, then that should probably be a pretty clear sign that President Trump is exactly the man we want to have in office.</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">And of course, part of keeping Trump out of office is censoring anyone and everyone who supports the president or even just accurately reports on his accomplishments. Naturally, that includes us here at One America News</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">. </span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">They can't have people reporting the truth, but we aren't alone. Anyone who fights for free speech is under fire. Fox News, Elon Musk, </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">even Clarence Thomas.</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Only the second Black man on the Supreme Court has been hit with death threats from the radical left simply for standing up for our freedoms.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">&nbsp;</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Clearly, the Injustice Department has been <b>weaponized</b> against Trump. They never raided Obama or Bill Clinton, despite their numerous scandals. <b>Certainly not Hunter Biden, whose laptop is a treasure trove of illegal business deals his father knowingly covered up</b>. In fact, we now know the FBI was actually told to downplay and even undermine any investigation into Hunter actively covering up any damaging information about the commander and thief's son. And the FBI definitely wouldn't raid Joe Biden, even though he admitted on camera to illegally bribing a foreign government official to stop investigating his son's criminal activities in Ukraine.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">[...]&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>As you can see, the Department of Injustice and the FBI only wield their power against their own political enemies. They don't protect the American people from corruption, they create corruption. </b>Be sure they won't stop with Trump either. After raiding Mar-a-Lago, <b>they stole the cell phone of a sitting member of Congress, Republican Representative Scott Perry.</b> Now, there are reports that federal investigators are delivering subpoenas to House and Senate Republicans.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; color: rgb(58, 67, 78); font-family: bagatela, serif; font-size: 19.7354px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>This is how republics are destroyed, and what follows republics are brutal dictatorships. But rather than take down Trump for good, this is going to rally and inspire his supporters and will enable President Trump to sweep through the next election with a victory like nothing we've ever seen before. </b>The Democrats think they've won, but they've just started the fire and they'll find out too late that you </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">should never underestimate the determination and resilience of America's patriots. For One America News and the still free press, I'm Pearson Sharp.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma 6 22</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">no lnx vid</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>&nbsp;Thursday night, One America News Network didn't air the January 6 congressional committee’s first televised hearing, which was carried live by every major broadcast network and cable news channel (except Fox News).</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Instead, OAN aired a bizarre documentary defending and celebrating January 6 mob participants, followed by unhinged attacks on the committee from network personalities and guests. The night's broadcasts were filled with pro-Trump nonsense, right-wing grievance, and a convoluted victim complex about the mob that assaulted the Capitol.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">At 6 p.m. ET, OAN led into the evening with a</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;2021 special, titled “Trump -- Legacy Of A Patriot,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">” an hour of ahistorical bootlicking about “President Trump’s stunning successes,”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;saying he accomplished more in his first 100 days in office than “any president since Franklin Roosevelt.”&nbsp;</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">OAN’s Pearson Sharp explained that “we here at One America News want to take a moment and look back at everything President Trump has achieved, and thank him for his hard work serving the American people.”</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>“Not only has President Trump done what he said he’d do — he’s far exceeded anything anyone thought possible.”</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Video&nbsp;</font><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">From June 9, 2022, programming on One America News Network</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">After that 2021 rerun, starting shortly before 7 p.m., OAN aired Capitol Punishment, a shoddy 2021 movie starring actor and January 6 participant Nick Searcy. The movie suggests that the&nbsp;<b>mob that assaulted the Capitol is made up of innocent patriots enduring a hate campaign from law enforcement</b>&nbsp;(because police officers defended Congress),<b>&nbsp;mainstream media, and the federal government</b>&nbsp;(because commentators and officials called the attack “domestic terrorism” and the attackers “racist”)</span>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The introduction prominently featured Searcy’s defiant “testimony” in a fake congressional hearing,</b>&nbsp;created by pasting together videos of Searcy pretending to be both witness and questioner with out-of-context clips of congressional Trump opponents through the years, as if they were denouncing him in Congress for being a “white supremacist, racist, terrorist insurrectionist.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">The self-victimization hits its first of several peaks after footage of the fatal shooting of mob member Ashli Babbitt by a U.S. Capitol police officer. A quote from former President Harry Truman appears, warning the viewer about “a government … committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition” resorting to “increasingly repressive measures” until “everyone lives in fe</span>ar.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Video file&nbsp;</font><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">From the June 9, 2022, broadcast of Capitol Punishment on OAN</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While the hearing itself was actually airing on other networks, Capitol Punishment had shifted to an interview with former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider about the Trump campaign’s use of the song We’re Not Gonna Take It, which was also played on the National Mall on January 6. After the Snider interview, the movie complains that Universal Music Group “reneged on the deal” for the film to use the song, “however they can’t stop you from singing the song yourself!”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">This is followed by an instrumental version of We’re Not Gonna Take It, with on-screen lyrics that have random letters removed, along with video of January 6 participants and supporters dancing and defending the attack.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The movie ends with Searcy riding into a dusty scene on horseback, as he tells the camera, “The republic is already lost. Our founding fathers risked everything to establish this country. What are you willing to risk? I risked hauling my 62-year-old ass up on this horse. Let’s go, people. What are they going to do, kill us all?”</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Video file</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">From the June 9, 2022, broadcast of Capitol Punishment on OAN</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>At 8:35, OAN shifted to its own programming, where network personalities and guests took turns attacking the hearing.</b>&nbsp;That included an interview with “political prisoner” Edward “Jake” Lang, allegedly from his “prison cell.” He used the hearing to complain that the investigation is a “farce” trying to “hang us for a two-hour disturbance” -- and of course to promote his own upcoming “documentary” about January 6.</span>&nbsp;The interviewer, OAN anchor Caitlin Sinclair, also dismissed the hearing as “a bit of a political stunt” because the committee “hired the former president of ABC News, who was a former producer who was responsible for covering up a lot of the Jeffrey Epstein story.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Later, Dan Ball fill-in host Rogan O’Handley told the Real America audience that, “like you, I didn’t waste my time with the clown show hearing the unconstitutional January 6 committee held,”</b>&nbsp;because “for months and months, all the committee has done is spew a narrative to the mainstream media and Democrats about this so-called insurrection.” O’Handley followed this with tired, predictable complaints about a double standard with “all the BLM and antifa riots from the summer of 2020.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">O’Handley followed his clichéd complaints with a lament that “former Trump adviser and Harvard-educated doctor Peter Navarro” was “treated like an Al Qaeda terrorist” -- meaning he was arrested -- for defying a congressional subpoena.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Video file&nbsp;</font><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">From the June 9, 2022, edition of OAN's Real America with Dan Ball</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>This led into an interview with Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA)</b>, who refused to testify to the same committee about his involvement in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election. Perry used his appearance to attack the committee hearing as “a three-ring circus” and “reality TV” that is only meant “to distract from what is actually happening to the country and what people are most concerned about.” (Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed during the hearing that Perry had sought a pardon from Trump for his part in the effort to deny the election.)&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">OAN also brought in D.C. bureau chief John Hines to discuss “the January 6 committee, the congressional committee,&nbsp;<b>so-called</b>, I guess,&nbsp;<b>according to some</b>,</span>” with Joe McBride, an attorney for several of the mob participants. McBride told Hines that the entire investigation was “a farce,” “propaganda,” and “a purposeful attempt to poison jury pools, grand jury pools, in the American consciousness. … They are trying to purposefully thwart justice, because they do not want a fair fight in the courtroom.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Video file</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">From June 9, 2022, programming on One America News Network</span></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The January 6 hearings are a watershed moment in the history of our young and fragile democracy; even though congressional Republicans will likely attempt to block any legislative efforts to protect the republic from another pro-Trump mob, it is important for Congress to discover the facts and present them publicly.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By instead choosing to air content hailing Trump’s supposedly God-like achievements and casting the violent mob as pitiful victims, OAN is making it abundantly clear it does not care about democracy. There can be only Trump and Trumpism, at whatever cost.&nbsp;</font></font></font></font></font></p><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></div></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">omfg</font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/oan-falsely-reports-upwards-25-million-people-have-been-killed-covid-19">https://www.mediamatters.org/coronavirus-covid-19/oan-falsely-reports-upwards-25-million-people-have-been-killed-covid-19</a></font></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>pEARSON SHARP (CORRESPONDENT): Our government is trying to kill us. It's not the first time it's happened, and it probably won't be the last.</b>&nbsp;Of course, that's just a conspiracy, though, isn't it? Our government would never do anything to harm us. Just like the CIA didn't spend 20 years secretly conducting hundreds of illegal mind control experiments on American citizens, without their knowledge, under the<b>&nbsp;MK-ULTRA plan</b>.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The CIA used colleges, universities, prisons, and got the help of doctors and hospitals and even pharmaceutical companies to carry out these illegal tests on thousands of patients who didn't know they were being experimented on. Sound familiar? It's all real. Look it up. It happened -- a proven case where our government illegally experimented on us. And you think that was the only time?</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We could wonder about what else they're doing, but it's really not much of a mystery. Just look at the experimental vaccines they forced on hundreds of millions of unwitting Americans. The forced vaccination program has been the largest human experiment in the history of the world, and so far the consequences have been appalling.&nbsp;</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Conservative estimates from the VAERS programs show upwards of 2.5 million people have been killed by the vaccines, and that's just here in America.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Another 100 million have suffered injuries ranging from persistent headaches, to paralysis, to amputation of all four limbs. In fact, there are so many injuries that the federal programs set up to help treat patients who suffered from injuries are totally overwhelmed.&nbsp;<b>Even Politico, of all places, admitted programs like the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program doesn't have enough staff to handle the thousands of people flooding through their doors,</b>&nbsp;all of them suffering from injuries after getting the experimental injections. These numbers are way up from previous years.&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>…</b></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">At this point, it's more of a conspiracy to believe the vaccines work than to believe they're causing us harm. But that's just what the government wants you to think, and they're doing their level best to cover up any evidence that exposes how dangerous these injections really are</b><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It turns out the CDC has been quietly going through and deleting official records on the U.S. government's VAERS website,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">which is used by health professionals, doctors, and insurance companies to track injuries and deaths from vaccines. According to data analysts, the Center for Disease Control has been erasing reports of deaths or injuries caused by the COVID vaccines and has already deleted about 10,000 reports so far.&nbsp;</span></font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This isn't the first time this has happened, either, with reports that the CDC went through and deleted up to 6,000 deaths from the database last year, but only for reports on the COVID vaccines. It's already been confirmed that both the FDA and Pfizer knew before the vaccines were released that they were dangerous and ineffective, and yet they decided to release them anyway. Now we're seeing the gruesome consequences of that decision.</font></font></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">No one can guess how many more innocent lives will be lost because of these toxic injections. But as we said in the beginning, this isn't the first time our government has illegally experimented on us.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">And although we don't know what their true purpose is, we do know one thing. 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</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>OAN's last months on DirecTV were a train wreck</b></div><div style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Since DirecTV announced it was dropping the network, OAN has become even more deranged</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WRITTEN BY BOBBY LEWIS</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">PUBLISHED 04/06/22&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>As of April 5, DirecTV has removed One America News Network from its TV subscription packages.&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In January, DirecTV announced that it would not renew its contract with the far-right conspiracy theory network. Although OAN provided years of virulent bigotry and right-wing misinformation, including one reporter’s on- and off-screen attempts to overturn the 2020 election, the announcement came after a massive public backlash to a Reuters report which revealed that&nbsp;<b>DirecTV’s owner, AT&T, played a critical role in creating OAN and supplied 90% of its income.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Once news broke of its DirecTV contract expiration, OAN filed a breach of contract lawsuit against AT&T and briefly solicited viewers for “dirt” on AT&T’s board chair.</b>&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Meanwhile, OAN programming has gotten worse since January, as the network doubled down on old staples like anti-vaccine conspiracy theories and lies about the 2020 election, as well as irresponsible coverage of new topics like the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Supreme Court nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">"There are no long-term studies for this vaccine. None. The only protection we have now is not to get it."<b> - Pearson Sharp attacking COVID-19 vaccines</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style=""><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The OAN line on COVID-19 vaccines, as delivered by correspondent Pearson Sharp, is that the vaccines are “turning into DNA” to become “part of your body’s genetic code,” meaning that “there’s a good chance they could … kill you</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.”</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> None of this is true, but in February, Sharp took these abject lies about vaccine mortality in a genocidal direction, telling OAN viewers that the survival of the United States depended on COVID-19 vaccines killing liberals.<b> Sharp also appeared on Infowars, where he hypothesized that COVID-19 restrictions could spark a justified revolution.&nbsp;</b></span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Though she was not OAN’s only misinformer about the 2020 election, former host Christina Bobb became the network’s face of its attempts to overturn the 2020 election results</b>. She fought for, reported on, and fundraised for the Arizona “audit,” and before she left OAN in March to work for former President Donald Trump, Bobb had begun a new phase of her pressure campaign against state-level Republicans to begin new “audits.”</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OAN also attached its brand of unhinged conspiracy theories to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.<b>&nbsp;Multiple OAN figures have suggested or stated that the Russian attack on&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">a maternity hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, was what Sharp called a “false flag operation” connected to billionaire George Soros.</span></b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"It’s deeper – There’s deeper state stuff here, Debbie, don’t you think?” Dan Ball to Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) on Hunter Biden and war in Ukraine</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>
</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>But few OAN personalities took as much of an interest in spreading misinformation about the war in Ukraine as prime-time host Dan Ball, who repeatedly spread Russian government propaganda about nonexistent “biochemical weapons plants” in Ukraine,</b>&nbsp;and seems to fervently believe that the war somehow involves President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, and the 2020 Trump campaign’s old, desperate allegations against Biden and a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma. In one segment about Ukraine, Ball even agreed with a guest that the U.S. military should invade and occupy northern Mexico because of immigration.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>OAN also spent the past few weeks directing viewers’ ire toward Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson</b>. Like much of right-wing media, OAN is enthralled by the false narrative that Jackson “lets pedos out of jail early,” according to Ball, who also called the accomplished jurist “scum” based on this smear. OAN programming has&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">called Jackson part of “the pedophilia problem that is currently happening in the left,” an unmistakable reference to QAnon lies (previously seen during the pre-QAnon Pizzagate era) that liberal elites participate in the systematic sexual exploitation of children.&nbsp;</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>In what may be OAN's waning days, as DirecTV essentially replaced it with Fox Nation and some of its more visible “talent” have fled the sinking shi</b>p, OAN&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">launched its own streaming service in an attempt to stay alive</span>. While subscriber numbers are not publicly known, it seems unlikely that “OANN Live” will make up for the financial loss of OAN’s DirecTV contract.&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More importantly, OAN’s conduct since losing DirecTV -- suing its former carrier, spreading Russian propaganda, convincing viewers that not only will vaccines kill people but some of them have to die, to say nothing of its shockingly hateful anti-LGBTQ content -- should make it clear to any TV provider that this litigious, conspiratorial disaster of a channel is simply not worth the trouble.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">IN THIS ARTICLE</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">One America News Network</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Related</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>OAN host: Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is “scum”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">04/01/22 12:41 PM EDT</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">OAN's Pearson Sharp spreads anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, claims vaccines cause death and alter your DNA</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">03/28/22 2:03 PM EDT</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Another OAN host left the network to work for Donald Trump</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">03/25/22&nbsp;</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">natalie harp. bobb</div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>LI 2 22</div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">investigative Reporter / Foreign Correspondent</b></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One America News Network</span></div><div>Apr 2014 - Present&nbsp; &nbsp;7 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>San Diego</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>I'm an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent at One America News.</b></div><div>
</div><div>KUSI Television&nbsp;</div><div>Senior News Writer</div><div>KUSI Television</div><div>Jul 2013 - Apr 2014&nbsp; 10 months</div><div>
</div><div>Greater San Diego Area</div><div>
</div><div>Working with reporters and anchors to write stories for broadcasting. I researched, edited, and wrote stories and packages.</div><div>
</div><div>China Wildlife Foundation&nbsp;</div><div>President</div><div>China Wildlife Foundation</div><div>Apr 2010 - Feb 20132 years 11 months</div><div>
</div><div>April 2010 -</div><div>Organized the Foundation from the ground up</div><div>Managed rallies and events and presented the venture to local business to accrue necessary resources for the project to move forward successfully</div><div>
</div><div>Imperial County Office of Education&nbsp;</div><div>Teacher</div><div>Imperial County Office of Education</div><div>Jan 2011 - Jun 2011&nbsp; 6 months</div><div>
</div><div>Private Language Academy&nbsp;</div><div>English Language Teacher</div><div>Private Language Academy</div><div>Jun 2010 - Oct 20105 months</div><div>
</div><div>Toronto, Canada</div><div>
</div><div>University of Xuchang&nbsp;</div><div>English Teacher</div><div>University of Xuchang</div><div>Oct 2009 - Jun 2010 9 months</div><div>
</div><div>Xuchang, China</div><div>
</div><div>responsible for teaching up to 180 1st year university students weekly</div><div>
</div><div>Education</div><div>University of Colorado BoulderUniversity of Colorado Boulder Graphic</div><div>University of Colorado Boulder</div><div>Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)English Language and Literature, General</div><div>2004 - 2009</div><div>
</div><div>University of Colorado Graphic</div><div>University of Colorado</div><div>Bachelors of ArtsEnglish; Creative Writing</div><div>2004 - 2009</div><div>
</div><div>Lancaster UniversityLancaster University Graphic</div><div>Lancaster University</div><div>Bachelor's DegreeEnglish Language and Literature, General</div><div>2006 - 2007</div><div>
</div><div>Activities and Societies: History Club, Philosophy Club</div><div>
</div><div>Lancaster UniversityLancaster University Graphic</div><div>Lancaster University</div><div>English</div><div>2006 - 2007</div><div>
</div><div>MVHS Graphic</div><div>MVHS</div><div>-</div><div>2000 - 2004</div><div>
</div><div>Publications</div><div>The Sovereign</div><div>Amazon&nbsp; July 20, 2015</div><div>"The Sovereign" is a science fiction novel about the son of an ancient dynasty who is caught between two warring religions, is betrayed, and loses his kingdom. The story is the first in a trilogy, and follows the prince's struggle to regain his lost empire and avenge his family.</div><div>
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</font></div><div><p id="ember135" class="pv-aboutsummary-text mt4 t-14 ember-view" data-adtags-visited="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" pt="PT" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="lt-line-clampline" style="box-sizing: inherit;">&nbsp;</span><span class="lt-line-clampline" style="box-sizing: inherit;">a s</span><span class="lt-line-clampline" style="box-sizing: inherit;">how host and for</span><span class="lt-line-clampline" style="box-sizing: inherit;">eign corresp</span><span class="lt-line-clampline" style="box-sizing: inherit;">ondent for One America News. As an investigative reporter, I cover</span>&nbsp;<span class="lt-line-clampline" style="box-sizing: inherit;">international conflicts and do on the ground reporting around the world—from the <b>migration crisis in Sweden, to the war</b></span><b>&nbsp;</b><span class="lt-line-clampline lt-line-clampline--last" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b>in Syria</b>. I’m a published author, and my first book,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Sovereign-Pearson-Sharp/dp/1515102025/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=Pearson+Sharp+the+Sovereign&qid=1620424508&sr=8-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">The Sovereign, is available on Amazon.com</a>. For now, I’m working on the next three books in the series, and plotting my escape from the big city to a little cabin in the woods.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></span></font></p><p data-adtags-visited="true" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin: 0px 0px 20px;" pt="PT" serif="serif" font-size="font-size" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a privacy junkie, I’m slowly getting rid of my social media accounts. But for now, you can follow me on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/PearsonSharp" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">@PearsonSharp</a>, check out my YouTube page at&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/PearsonSharp" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition: all 0.2s ease 0s;">Pearson Sharp</a>, or feel free to e-mail me at pearson@<span class="skimlinks-unlinked" style="box-sizing: inherit;">pearsonsharp.com</span>.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" /><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">dunno</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div><div>Pearson Sharp</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Pearson Sharp is an american journalist and writer for One America News Network. He has been involved in the journalism for almost a decade now. Moreover, he is also an author.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Pearson’s book, “The soverign” can be found and read in Amazon. The news correspondant has travelled to different places of the world for his journalism work. He is known for often speaking his mind.</div><div>
</div><div>Quick Facts: Pearson Sharp</div><div>Name<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pearson Sharp</div><div>Age<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Late 40s</div><div>Gender<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Male</div><div>Nationality<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>American</div><div>Ethnicity<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>White</div><div>Profession<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Journalist</div><div>Education<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>University of Colorado</div><div>Instagram<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>@pearsonsharp</div><div>Twitter<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>@pearsonsharp</div><div>Facebook<span style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pearson Sharp</div><div>
</div><div>So, we’re totally ok praising a man who tried to rob a pregnant woman and literally put a gun to her stomach… but we’re condemning a man for wearing a T-shirt…?</div><div>
</div><div>— Pearson Sharp (@PearsonSharp) June 17, 2020</div><div>
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</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>10 Facts on Pearson Sharp</div><div>
</div><div>Pearson Sharp is the show host and the journalist for One America News Network and also a published author. He was born and raised in Ohio, United States.&nbsp;</div><div>However, the journalist has not revealed the details about his birthday and age. Hence, these facts remain a mystery. However, he seems to be in the late 40s.&nbsp;</div><div>Similarly, he doesn’t have a wikipedia biography as per now. He has a personal website though.&nbsp;</div><div>Talking about his family, the facts about his wife and children are not disclosed. Seems like the host prefers to keep a low profile.&nbsp;</div><div>Financially, the news host makes a great amount of money. Even though his actual salary is unknown, his net worth is expected to be in the vicinity of $1 Million.&nbsp;</div><div>Likewise, the information about his parents is also not available.</div><div>As for his childhood, he spent it in a small farming town near Ohio. Afterwards, he graduated at English and Creative writing from University of Colorado.&nbsp;</div><div>Pearson is a experienced person. He has travelled across Canada, China and Syria. He even taught at one of the Chinese Universities.&nbsp;</div><div>Moroever, he is an author of book “The Soverign.” He is working in a series of three books which are to be published very soon.&nbsp;</div><div>Furthermore, Pearson is also a foreign correspondant for One America News. He is currently residing in San Diego, California but hopes to settle in Ireland one day.</div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...s<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">harp doesn’t have the same hoax spreading bonafides as some of his colleagues but has at least made himself, in propaganda parlance, a “useful idiot,” which counts for something.</span></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></span></div><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a May 2019 OAN&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkKjcliU9OY" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">story</a>, Sharp cited a report from the Foundation for the Study of Democracy to claim that the <b>White Helmets, an internationally lauded volunteer search and rescue team in Syria, had been faking chemical attacks in the country. </b>What Sharp was either ignorant of or did not share, is that the Foundation for the Study of Democracy&nbsp;<a href="https://archive.thinkprogress.org/far-right-website-no-evidence-of-a-chemical-attack-in-syria-affdfd59ded7/" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; background-position: 0px 90%; background-image: url(" wp-content="wp-content" themes="themes" motherjones="motherjones" css="css" img="img" orange-border.png="orange-border.png" background-repeat="background-repeat" repeat-x="repeat-x" text-shadow="text-shadow" rgb="rgb" px="px">is a Russian government front</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow-wrap: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Like his co-workers, he’s also<b style=""> attacked&nbsp;Soros </b>by reporting that protests against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by activists from groups that he’s funded “aren’t what they seem to be.”</font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>PUBLISHED 02/11/22&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On February 9, One America News Network’s Pearson Sharp appeared on Alex Jones’ eponymous show on Infowars for a nearly 40-minute interview with the conspiracy theorist who was recently found liable for defamation in lawsuits brought by some of the families of children murdered in the Sandy Hook school shooting.&nbsp;</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">During the appearance, Sharp suggested pandemic restrictions could lead to a revolution; claimed Democrats might welcome an invasion by China to help fight dissenters; and compared the tracking of unvaccinated Americans to events that preceded the Holocaust.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>OAN is currently trying to get picked up by mainstream cable providers like Spectrum and Dish Network after DirecTV announced it would not renew its contract with the network, starving OAN’s parent company of 90% of its income.&nbsp;</b></div><div>
</div><div>Though Jones is most infamous for lying about the Sandy Hook massacre, he has also regularly promoted far-right extremists calling for anti-government violence. He was also involved in funding and fomenting a January 6 event that devolved into the attack on the Capitol, and he has capitalized on his lies about the 2020 election by promoting his line of ineffective supplements.&nbsp;</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>During the interview, Sharp praised Jones, saying, “It’s really an honor to be on here. You’re one of the few truth-tellers in our country right now.</b>” Jones also effusively praised Sharp, telling him, “I watch [OAN] hours a day. We have it on here at the office, all over the building. We don’t have Fox on anymore, other than Tucker Carlson occasionally.” Jones also told Sharp that “you have the same views as I do on this crazy world” and at the end, he invited him to come back anytime and guest host The Alex Jones Show.&nbsp;</span></div><div>
</div><div>Some highlights from Jones and Sharp’s lengthy conversation follow:</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Sharp predicted that COVID-19 restrictions could spark a revolution, leading to Democrats inviting a Chinese invasion to keep power</b></div><div>
</div><div>CitationFrom the February 9, 2022, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show</div><div>
</div><div>PEARSON SHARP (OAN REPORTER): What worries me is we are pushing back, but the American people -- you know, we’re supposed to be the cowboys. We’re supposed to be the rebels and the renegades and the revolutionaries. But throughout the last two years, we have just shown a shocking tolerance for this kind of oppression and this tyranny, and we just go along with it and bend over and accept what they’re saying. And I didn’t expect that. I thought we were going to have more of a backbone and push back.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Now, we’re not like New Zealand. We’re not like England. We haven’t been pushed that far, and I think the only reason that’s happened is because we have guns and they don’t. But they’re doing everything they can to get rid of those as well.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">ALEX JONES (HOST): I totally agree with you. So why do you think they’re suddenly claiming, “OK, we’re going to back off the masks, we’re going to back off forced injections for now.” I think that’s because they see that finally people see them, and they’ve pushed too far. They hope people go back to sleep.</span></div><div>
</div><div>SHARP: They do. They absolutely do. They have pushed too far. But I wonder, what is going to be the sparking point? What is going to be the Boston Massacre of our generation? What is going to be the flint stone that sets this off?</div><div>
</div><div>And the other thing that worries me, and I’d like to get your take on this, is when we do push back, and we push back hard enough, I’m concerned that whether it’s Biden or Kamala, or whoever it is -- someone in Washington is going to say, “Look, this is too much for us to handle. Hey China, you want to help us out here? You’re good at putting down riots and oppressing people. Why don’t you come on over?”</div><div>
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</div><div>SHARP: I’m legitimately concerned that it could be a very real possibility that we have an initially soft invasion from China — where Washington rolls out the welcome mat and we have <b>Chinese peacekeepers</b> coming over and filling our streets — to a hard invasion where there is no rebellion against Washington anymore, but we’re just fighting an outright war against China on our doorstep.&nbsp;</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SHARP: Where we’re at now, how bad things have gotten, do you think that we can have -- can we recover from where we are? Can we have a peaceful recovery from where we are? Because everything I’ve seen, it looks like the&nbsp;<b>democratic process has failed. Negotiations have failed. And I hate to think that a revolution is the only answer, but I don’t see these people ever giving up power or backing down.&nbsp;</b></span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Sharp argued that the “globalists” want to turn America into China, where “everyone is just totally controlled and cowed into submission”</b></div><div>
</div><div>Citation From the February 9, 2022, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show</div><div>
</div><div>PEARSON SHARP (OAN REPORTER): China -- astonishingly, China is the end goal for these globalists. They want everything to be like that, where everyone is just totally controlled and cowed into submission.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">When I was over there, I was a teacher at Xuchang University, which is in central China, about 12 hours west of Beijing, and it was a town of about 4 million people, which is considered small over there. And my students were really nice. But I have never met a more indoctrinated group of people in my life. And it was everybod</span>y.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Everybody you would run into was just -- it’s difficult to explain to someone in the West, the difference in behavior between a Chinese national and an American. And this is a total cultural thing, before anyone jumps to racism, because you talk to people from Hong Kong, and it’s night and day. They’re like Americans. You talk to people from Taiwan, they’re like Americans. They understand what freedom is --</div><div>
</div><div>ALEX JONES (HOST): This is three generations under communism and they’re like Martians.</div><div>
</div><div>SHARP: Yeah. They are. They absolutely are like Martians. They’re totally obedient, they don’t question anything. And they have a concept over there called “saving face,” where you know the person you’re talking to is lying, they know you know that they’re lying, but you both continue with it because you want to preserve face. And that interaction happens in everything that you do.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>…</div><div>
</div><div>ALEX JONES (HOST):<b>&nbsp;So all they do is just gaslight and just go on. That’s why they have so many disasters, so many plants melt down [japan?], because no one will tell anybody they’re wrong.</b></div><div>
</div><div>SHARP: Exactly. Yep. It’s endemic to their culture. And that, I’m afraid, is what’s going to happen here. People are just going to buy what’s being fed to them.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><b>Sharp compared federal agencies’ alleged tracking of unvaccinated employees to the beginning of the Holocaust: They are “curating a list of enemies of the state”</b></div><div>
</div><div>CitationFrom the February 9, 2022, edition of Infowars' The Alex Jones Show</div><div>
</div><div>PEARSON SHARP (OAN REPORTER): We just found out a couple days ago that there are 55 federal agencies, including five cabinet-level agencies, who are now tracking Americans and employees -- specifically of them, Treasury Department, even the military -- tracking employees who have objections to the vaccine, who apply for an exemption or something, who don’t want to get it. They’re tracking these people.&nbsp;<b>And you’d better believe they’re watching them closely.</b></div><div>
</div><div>They’re basically, what this is is curating a list of enemies of the state. And what’s terrifying is, we’ve seen this before. All of this has happened before. In 1930s Germany, IBM created a database of Jewish people in Europe, which really greatly facilitated the Nazi Germany government going after the Jews in their country.</div><div>
</div><div>And now, I feel like that’s what we’re seeing here. They’re going after red-blooded Americans who are&nbsp;<b>standing up for their country and don’t want to be a part of this genocide</b>. They’re tracking them. And we know where this leads.</div><div>
</div><div>ALEX JONES (HOST): That’s right, this is all -- if you had a list of like a hundred things that tyrants would do, and like Hitler did 60, and Stalin did 50, and Mao did 75, they’ve done like a hundred. They’re going down everything a tyrant would do, and they’re checking the box off.</div><div>
</div><div>---</div><div>Roger Stone pitches nutritional supplement from Alex Jones' Infowars store as COVID-19 recovery aid</div><div>02/07/22 3:24 PM EST</div><div>OAN reporter: The survival of our country depends on COVID-19 vaccines killing liberals</div><div>
</div><div><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-reporter-survival-our-country-depends-covid-19-vaccines-killing">https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-reporter-survival-our-country-depends-covid-19-vaccines-killing</a></div><div>
</div><div>vid?</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">SHARP (REPORTER):&nbsp;More and more Americans are standing up and fighting back against the<b> tyranny of the COVID conspiracy theory. Convoys of outraged truck drivers are sending a message loud and clear to cowardly leaders all over the world,</b> from Canada to Australia and even here in the U.S., and that message is simple:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Back off, or else. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">We, the people, will not tolerate this oppression any longer.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">We have had enough. Enough of watching our businesses get destroyed, while hypocritical politicians like Gavin Newsom dine out at fancy restaurants with their friends during lockdowns,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">&nbsp;[NOT BORIS?] or go maskless to public events they demand that we wear masks to. We've had enough of watching our loved ones get sick and die pointless deaths, all because the media and despots in Washington refused to let us treat our sick with the safest and most effective drugs in the world, like ivermectin. </span><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">We've had enough of being denied basic services</b><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">,[LIKE HAPPY HOUR?]&nbsp; like being refused entry into a grocery store or restaurant,</span><b style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"> or being refused a life-saving organ transplant unless we have a dehumanizing passport proving we're dumb enough to sign over the rights to our own bodies to these murderous tyrants.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Enough of seeing our children die after being forced to take this same poisonous drug that's making Big Pharma companies like Pfizer and Moderna over $100 billion a year. Enough is enough.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">They can try to cover up their crimes. But the evidence is mounting, and they can't hide it forever. The story that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated is laughable. <b>How do they explain the hundreds of fully vaccinated cruise ships coming down with the Fauci flu?</b> Israel is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, and right now nearly 1% of their entire population is coming down with the China virus every single day. Think about that. Really let that number sink in: 1% of the entire country gets sick with this engineered virus, every day. And they're all fully vaccinated.&nbsp;</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>Wayne Allyn Root over on Townhall put together a great article on this, demonstrating how the German government claimed up to 90% of the infected and dead are unvaccinated.</b> But that was a flat-out lie, because it turns out the German government was actually classifying every sick and dying person as unvaccinated, regardless of whether they were or not. S<b>ame goes for Canada, where they claimed 60% of the COVID deaths were unvaccinated. But that was a lie, too, because in reality, they just classified anyone who got sick or died within two weeks of getting the vaccine as unvaccinated.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>And surprise, surprise, our own beloved CDC -- the Centers for Democrat Control -- pulled the same trick on us.</b> The CDC claimed that anyone who died within 14 days of getting injected wasn't vaccinated. Even though the majority of the deaths and injuries from the vaccine happened within that first 14-day period. Good way to cover up all the <b>people they're murdering,</b> just say they're not vaccinated. Sneaky, sneaky.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Daniel Nagase, a Canadian doctor for over 15 years who was fired after saving the lives of three patients with ivermectin, says this is just the tip of the iceberg. Nagase said looking at Pfizer's own clinical trial data, the number of deaths and injuries from the vaccine are staggering. According to their data,<b> fully 31% of the people who got the vaccine either died or had permanent disabilities.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even more shocking is what's happening in the military. Since the armed forces rolled out the vaccine, in one year <b>cancer rates are up 300% among military members. </b>But that's not all. <b>Infertility is skyrocketing as well, up 500% in women, along with miscarriages, which are up another 300%.</b> But those numbers pale in comparison to the rates of clinically diagnosed neurological disorders, which went up an astronomical 1,000% from 82,000 to nearly 900,000. And that happened in one year since the vaccines were introduced. Just think about what that's doing to America's ability to defend itself. Our young warriors crippled by their own government. And we still insist on giving this experimental drug to our children.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">Even research published in the<b> Toxicology Reports Journal</b>, one of the most well-respected medical journals anywhere, found that children have almost no risk from COVID, but suffer severe consequences from what the researchers themselves called toxic inoculations, including paralysis, heart attacks and even death. The study found the spike proteins from the injections cause permanent damage in children's critical organs, including their brains, nervous and reproductive systems. <b>After being ordered by a judge in December, Pfizer released its own data, which showed that out of 32 known pregnant women who received the vaccine, 28 women experienced fetal death and lost their babies. This is tantamount to child sacrifice on the altar of Big Pharma.</b></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);"><b>Young athletes </b>are another prime group to be targeted by this deadly vaccine with 500% more soccer players in the E.U. dropping dead from heart attacks than one year ago -- 500%. Who is actually braindead enough to think that this is just a coincidence, when Pfizer and Moderna's vaccine are known by the FDA to cause heart attacks. This is a pandemic of the ignorant, and it's killing our country.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(239, 243, 247);">So, for all of you progressives and Democrats and radical leftists out there. Do us all a favor, please, and go get vaccinated. In fact, don't stop there. Get double vaccinated, and be sure to<b> get all your boosters. All three or four of them.</b> </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Why stop there? If more is better--- get five, six, get 10 boosters. All the rest of us sane, freedom-loving Americans are counting on you to get your injections. The survival of our country depends on it.</span></p></div><div>
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</font></div><div><h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Promotion_of_executions"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Promotion of executions</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In June 2021, OANN personality Pearson Sharp falsely stated in an on-air monologue that "the simple facts point to massive and widespread problems with voting integrity" and "t</span><b style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">here have been numerous indications that foreign governments including </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">China </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">and Pakistan, meddled in our election to install Joe Biden as president,"</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> continuing:</span></font></p><blockquote style="overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 8px 32px; border-left: none;"><p style="margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">What are the consequences for traitors who meddled with our sacred democratic process and tried to steal power by taking away the voices of the American people? What happens to them? Well, in the past, America had a very good solution for dealing with such t</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">raitors: <b style="">Execution</b>...The bottom line is that no one is above the law. And let this be a warning to anyone who thinks they are. The consequences are clear. And those responsible will be brought to justice for their role in undermining America's democracy.</span></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Followers of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QAnon" title="QAnon" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">QAnon</a>&nbsp;conspiracy theory shared video of the monologue, which buttressed their belief that a "storm" was coming in which Satan-worshiping pedophiles who oppose Trump would be rounded up and executed.</span><sup id="cite_ref-159" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News_Network#cite_note-159" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[159]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_America_News_Network#cite_note-160" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; background: none;">[160]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Doxing_and_harassment_of_New_York_Times_journalist"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doxing and harassment of&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;journalist</font></span></h3></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-oliver-torches-his-atandt-bosses-over-oan-reveal-you-make-the-world-worse?via=twitter_page" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Oliver</a>&nbsp;discussed OAN during a segment on the Sunday, October 10 broadcast of his HBO series "Last Week Tonight," humorously taking a jab at AT&T for playing a role in the launch of OAN back in 2013.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oliver told viewers, "You may remember that we covered (OAN) last year. It's a far-right channel that peddles COVID misinformation and conspiracy theories. Well, this week, we learned some pretty unsettling news."</font></p><div id="story_page_incontent_p2_target" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><ins class="adsbygoogle" data-ad-client="ca-pub-5155643920455169" data-ad-slot="6339868799" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none; text-align: center; margin-bottom: 20px; display: block;" /></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After showing a clip of CNN's Jake Tapper reporting on the AT&T/OAN connection, Oliver humorously added, "Yup, turns out AT&T has been up to some shit. And it is worth noting: AT&T is still technically our business daddy, making OAN our business stepsibling — and not in a hot way."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oliver, drawing on reporting from Reuters, added "OAN founder and Chief Executive Robert Herring, Sr. has testified that the inspiration to launch OAN in 2013 came from AT&T executives. 'They told us they wanted a conservative network,' Herring said during a 2019 deposition seen by Reuters…. With that help, OAN has grown into the toxic network that it is today — one that's happy to give a platform to batshit election fraud theories from America's most out-of-breath pillow fetishist (Mike Lindell)."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Oliver showed a clip of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-goes-full-fascist-pearson-sharp-calls-for-mass-executions-over-election-fraud" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">OAN's </a><b><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/oan-goes-full-fascist-pearson-sharp-calls-for-mass-executions-over-election-fraud" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">Pearson Sharp</a>&nbsp;calling for mass executions of Democrats and election workers </b>he believes stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Maintaining his humorous but edgy tone, the "Last Week Tonight" host said, "Look, AT&T, I know our relationship is a little awkward…. Let me just say this: You're a terrible company. You do bad things, and you make the world worse.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><table role="presentation" class="yiv0720154447stylingblock-content-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv0720154447stylingblock-content-margin-cell" style="word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><table role="presentation" class="yiv0720154447stylingblock-content-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv0720154447stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv0720154447camarker-inner" style="word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px;"><h2 style="line-height: 1;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84bfb89146ba9bdcee8ba0c9a2dc83cc6e5fb6cd4353c1080f4005e253b8b4aae5c8a49cf5ffa768937e7e087b7583dfc776685897464bcc" title="In a preview of the next four years, right-wing media refuse to admit that Joe Biden is the president-elect">In a preview of the next four years, right-wing media refuse to admit that Joe Biden is the president-elect</a></font></h2></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table role="presentation" class="yiv0720154447stylingblock-content-wrapper" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="min-width: 100%;"><tbody><tr><td class="yiv0720154447stylingblock-content-wrapper yiv0720154447camarker-inner" style="word-break: normal; border-collapse: collapse; padding: 0px 10px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;" /><div style="line-height: 31px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 31px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 1em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fox News has been&nbsp;<b>Donald Trump</b>’s personal propaganda outlet throughout his presidency, however he’s recently&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84bfb89146ba9bdcbf3416635fdd037b9e4860a6e16c1cb832c24740fdf35da1bf2ec976091733259615fe66a6e4bfe959d6b22338a3c2bd" title="increased">increased</a>&nbsp;his criticism of the network. Trump has urged his followers to instead watch OAN and Newsmax, who in his mind, are more willing to promote delusional conspiracy theories and aid his efforts to undermine election results.&nbsp;</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">OAN and Newsmax, Fox’s right-wing competitors, refusal to refer to&nbsp;<b>Joe Biden</b>&nbsp;as president-elect proved to be an early point of contention between the networks, and a&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84bfb89146ba9bdcf41f259f5cf93c7031156f00c7dbacadcad241f70cd1063b0423dae59c9ab18eb2e81dd756a8b80730d0ed69320d6c58" title="preview of how they will interact">preview of how they will interact</a>&nbsp;in the years to come</span>. Since the early discrepancy, Fox has&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84bfb89146ba9bdc48f776b3b161c92eb5de872ab08df7e22522662fcf6c72456f316b12ee18902f41324f83fd9b9768ad00170acd004cce" title="aggressively course-corrected">aggressively course-corrected</a>&nbsp;in hopes of maintaining its audience.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For example,<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> OAN’s&nbsp;<b>Pearson Sharp</b>&nbsp;highlighted that his network “will officially not be calling Joe Biden the president-elec</span>t.” Further, Newsmax’s highest-rated host,&nbsp;<b>Greg Kelly</b>, said that “Joe Biden is pretending that he is the president-elect” and that “at least on this opinion show” he “is not the president-elect.” Though the network has said that “as a result of the Electoral College vote Joe Biden is the president-elect and will be referred to as such on Newsmax.”&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While several of Fox’s “news-side” programs have correctly referred to Biden as the president-elect, several other personalities have expressed an unwillingness to do so, in an effort to retain viewers loyal to the president.&nbsp;</span>This week,&nbsp;<i>Fox & Friends&nbsp;</i>co-host&nbsp;<b>Brian Kilmeade</b>&nbsp;described Biden as “the former vice president who is, according to some, president-elect,” while his co-host&nbsp;<b>Ainsley Earhart</b>&nbsp;referenced “<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">what they’re calling the President-elect</span>&nbsp;Biden.”&nbsp;<b>Lou Dobbs</b>&nbsp;mentioned the “so-called president-elect” on Wednesday, while&nbsp;<b>Sean Hannity</b>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<b>Tucker Carlson</b>&nbsp;both avoided the issue by simply calling him “Joe Biden” without any title at all.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media Matters’&nbsp;<b>Matt Gertz</b>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84bfb89146ba9bdc5548984c1c2d11edaa319f63f840c25bdcba2f9a68cd95438dc195e11a6982feda1f8f16d555f7dd6fc6dfc5c00149a8" title="explained">explained</a>&nbsp;the absurd nature of Fox’s efforts: “But Fox’s fear of crossing its competitors and its viewers over something this patently ridiculous bodes ill for how it will react when Newsmax and OAN push deranged conspiracy theories during the Biden presidency.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Also<i>:</i></b>&nbsp;Fox News&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=84bfb89146ba9bdc97402ad3e9bbfed5b741cf7f186ca83adc0cefb97efa4d486e503aa6d9793659fc9de0c6672003641b7dfd4fa4eaa589" title="has already started poisoning the well">has already started poisoning the well</a>&nbsp;for climate action under the Biden administration.</font></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">mojo&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/06/one-america-news-network-staff/">https://www.motherjones.com/politics<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">/2020/06/</span>one-america-news-network-staff/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>over the last several weeks, President Trump has repeatedly promoted the conspiracy-mongering One American News Network on his Twitter feed and by regularly calling on its correspondent at White House news events. On Tuesday morning, he did so again by tweeting an unsubstantiated conspiracy that has been pushed by the network, citing its reporting to claim that a 75-year-old man who was knocked over and bloodied by Buffalo police while taking part in a protest after the death of George Floyd may have been “an ANTIFA provocateur” working to disrupt police communications.</div><div>
</div><div>Based on what little data is available, the channel could use all the White House support it can get. According to CNN, OAN doesn’t subscribe to industry-standard Nielsen Media Research, but last spring, it went ahead and measured the channel anyway in the country’s largest metropolitan areas. It averaged just 14,000 viewers from April 1, 2019, to June 11, 2019. In that time, Fox News averaged 631,000 viewers; CNN and MSNBC also had averages in the hundreds of thousands. While the network’s owner has said it is available in 35 million American homes, that number represents less than a third of households with television.</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Despite its small viewership, Trump has helped OAN gain outsize reach and reputation by endorsing its outrageous reporting and by his multiple assertions that he might prefer the network to Fox News</b>. The channel’s willingness to do stories without a factual basis seems to know no bounds, as long as they make the left look bad and the right, particularly Trumpism, look great. The channel amplifies hoaxes that, before, were usually sitting on the margins of the internet. For example, theories about the global ambitions of liberal megadonor George Soros, Bill Gates, and other wealthy people that the channel has run haven’t appeared anywhere else but on message boards and fringe-right Twitter and Instagram accounts. It’s unclear if the channel has a fact-checking process. If it does, it appears to have no problem citing such sources.</div><div>
</div><div>OAN’s willingness to amplify the false and absurd probably comes from its personnel. It’s established a team of on-air personalities who, without the network’s platform, would be hard pressed to do much beyond being tinfoil hat-wearing, internet shit posters. Here’s a look at some of the wildest members of their organization:</div><div>
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</div><div>Kristian Rouz</div><div>Trump’s Tuesday morning tweet about Martin Gugino, the elderly activist manhandled by Buffalo police, referenced a segment reported by Rouz where he posits the incident of “so-called police brutality” may have been a “false flag provocation.”&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Rouz went viral last month in the midst of the coronavirus crisis after Media Matters’ Matt Gertz happened to see a segment he created claiming “mounting evidence of a<b> globalist conspiracy” by the Clintons, Soros, Bill Gates, Dr. Anthony Fauci, and the Chinese government,</b> citing a comically high amount of unnamed “reports.” (T</span>o be 100 percent clear, no reports indicate this.)</div><div>
</div><div>In 2017, also on an entirely false OAN segment, Rouz made up a claim about how Clinton was secretly funding antifa through her political action committee. In another, he repeated the debunked claim that Soros collaborated with Nazis during World War II, when he would have been in his early teens. He also claimed on-air that Soros was funding the Central American migrant caravan that captured the attention of conspiracy theorists in the fall of 2018.</div><div>
</div><div>Rouz didn’t just come out of nowhere with viral megahits. He’s been practicing in a well known conspiratorial training ground: Russian propaganda state media. As of 2019, The Daily Beast pointed out that Rouz has been working simultaneously for both OAN and for the Russian state media outlet, Sputnik.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Jack Posobiec</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Posobiec may be the channel’s flagship disinformer.</b> The OAN host is notorious for being one of the most prominent pushers of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory; he once conducted a livestream “investigation” of the restaurant where the hoax pedophile ring was said to be occurring, during which he waltzed into a child’s birthday party being held in a back room. Since then, he acts as though he’s been locked in a John Wooden-esque competition with himself to outdo his greatest disinformation achievement.</div><div>
</div><div>Since Pizzagate, instead of amplifying other already existing conspiracies, Posobiec has usually been focused on his own, artisanally crafted solo concoctions. He once stopped a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar mid-production in New York because he was offended the centuries-old work had been staged with elements that seemed to reference Trump. I once witnessed him dash around the lawn of the Capitol telling Democratic Senators that supporting net neutrality would mean that they were supporting Satanic porn.</div><div>
</div><div>Some of his most repugnant hits include trying to plant “Rape Melania” signs at an anti-Trump rally, falsely tweeting that Obama Attorney General Loretta Lynch had called for “blood in the streets,” a made-up claim that Star Wars’ Rogue One was being rewritten to include scenes calling Trump racist, and, after Republican congressman Steve Scalise was shot at baseball practice, that Bernie Sanders had told his followers to “take down” Trump. None of rose to Pizzagate levels of fame, but not for lack effort on Posobiec’s part. He has also tweeted in support of a white nationalist conspiracy which holds that immigration and other trends are part of a secret plot to commit white genocide.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Chanel Rion</b></div><div><b>Rion, who is the channel’s White House reporter, may be supplanting Posobiec as OAN’s most well-known staff member due to Trump’s recent habit of calling on her during new conferences, where she can be relied upon to ask questions whose thrust is either helpful to the president or damaging to his opponents.</b> Another unhinged conspiracy theorist, she has peddled theories including Pizzagate, that the Clinton’s were responsible for Seth Rich’s murder, anti-semitic tropes about liberal financier George Soros, and conspiracies about Joe Biden’s dealings in Ukraine.</div><div>
</div><div>During the coronavirus, CNN reports that Rion jeopardized the health of other journalists by flouting White House Press Briefing social distancing guidelines. After being kicked out of briefings for this, she tried, unsuccessfully, to bring her own chair into the briefing room.</div><div>
</div><div>Rion’s bio boasts that before she came to OAN, she worked as a volunteer on Trump’s 2016 campaign and spent time “producing illustrations for President Trump and family.”</div><div>
</div><div>Robert Herring Sr.</div><div>Robert Herring Sr. founded OAN in 2013 with money he made in the circuit board industry. While Herring has not personally used OAN airtime to undertake overt and aggressive conspiracy-mongering, he owns a network that has hired a bunch of people that do. On Twitter, Herring boosts his own suspect theories (he’s been really into hydroxychloroquine as a coronavirus cure, which doctors are not yet confident in). According to the Washington Post, Herring banned polls that didn’t show Trump in first place during his last election.</div><div>
</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">HONORABLE MENTIONS</span></div><div><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Pearson Sharp</b></div><div>Sharp doesn’t have the same hoax spreading bonafides as some of his colleagues <b>but has at least made himself, in propaganda parlance, a “useful idiot,” </b>which counts for something.</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">In a May 2019 OAN story, Sharp cited a report from the Foundation for the Study of Democracy to claim that the White Helmets, an internationally lauded volunteer search and rescue team in Syria, had been <b>faking chemical attacks in the country</b>. What Sharp was either ignorant of or did not share, is that the Foundation for the Study of Democracy is a Russian government front.</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Like his co-workers, he’s also attacked Soros by reporting that protests against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by activists from groups that he’s funded “aren’t what they seem to be.”</b>&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Emerald Robinson&nbsp;</div><div><b>Emerald Robinson no longer works at OAN. She’s now at Newsmax, but in her time at the San Diego-based television outlet, she became one of the channel’s few anchors to be praised by the white nationalist website, VDare</b>.</div><div>
</div><div>It’s unclear exactly what about Robinson resonated with the outlet, but a now-deleted Islamaphobic tweet in which she called Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) an “al-Qaeda supporting Somali Gangster” and “Islamist terrorist supporter” offers a sense.</div><div>
</div><div>Jerome Corsi&nbsp;</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">High-profile conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi doesn’t work at OAN, but he’s too prominent not to mention. Corsi, who was a subject of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, has gone on the channel to erroneously talk about how “Soros & Bidens Are Globalist Puppet Masters Behind Ukraine.</span>”</div><div>
</div><div>Off the network, Corsi has spread hoaxes about the Clinton’s killing of DNC staffer Seth Rich, even though he knew it wasn’t true. The hoax has subjected Rich’s already grieving family to tremendous agony and pain.&nbsp;</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">off bs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><b>CDC Data Reveals Vaccines Are Killing Far More Children Than China Virus Itself</b></div><div>The latest reports from the UK government and from the CDC reveal the vaccines for the Chinese virus are killing far more children than the virus itself. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.</div><div>
</div><div>FILE - A dose of a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is prepared at Lurie Children's hospital, Nov. 5, 2021, in Chicago. On Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming an increase in death benefits paid out by life insurance providers in the third quarter of 2021 in the United States provides evidence that the COVID-19 vaccines, which became widely available in 2021, led to a spike in deaths.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)</div><div>OAN SPECIAL REPORTS, PEARSON SHARP REPORTS</div><div>
</div><div>Mainstream Media Colluding With FDA, CDC To Cover Up Skyrocketing Deaths From China Virus Vaccines</div><div>More doctors are coming forward with evidence that vaccines against the China virus are actually causing significant side effects, including death. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.</div><div>
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</div><div><b>Biden’s FCC Nominee Enemy Of The Free Press</b></div><div>The freedom of the press is in jeopardy as Joe Biden continues pushing his nomination of <b>Gigi Sohn </b>for the new commissioner of the FCC. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.</div><div>
</div><div>A healthcare worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Oct. 5, 2021, in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)</div><div>OAN SPECIAL REPORTS, PEARSON SHARP REPORTS</div><div>
</div><div>Non-COVID Deaths Among Americans In Prime Of Life Are Up 140% Above Normal Since Vaccines Introduced</div><div>New data reveals the number of Americans dying in the prime of their lives is up nearly 140 percent above normal since the COVID vaccines were introduced in 2021. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.</div><div>
</div><div>WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: A large group of pro-Trump protesters stand on the East steps of the Capitol Building after storming its grounds on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. A pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, breaking windows and clashing with police officers. Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images)</div><div>OAN SPECIAL REPORTS, PEARSON SHARP REPORTS</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Leftist, Media Narrative Surrounding Jan. 6 Simply An Excuse For Democrats To Seize Power</b></div><div>One year after the events of January 6, Democrats and the mainstream media are still pushing the phony narrative that right-wing protesters led an insurrection against the capitol. However, as One America’s Pearson Sharp explains, the radical left is using January 6 as an excuse to discredit President Donald Trump and seize more power heading into the 2022 midterms.</div><div>
</div><div>People wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 walk in downtown Lisbon, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Portuguese health authorities on Monday identified 13 cases of omicron, the new coronavirus variant spreading fast globally, among members of the Lisbon-based Belenenses SAD soccer club, and were investigating possible local transmission of the virus outside of southern Africa. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)</div><div>OAN SPECIAL REPORTS, PEARSON SHARP REPORTS</div><div>
</div><div><b>Growing Number Of Doctors, Scientists Reporting Face Masks Ineffective At Preventing China Virus</b></div><div>Some doctors are coming forward with growing evidence that wearing face masks is not effective at preventing or stopping the spread of the coronavirus. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.</div><div>
</div><div>FILE - Medical staff tend to a patient with coronavirus, on a COVID-19 ward inside the Willis-Knighton Medical Center in Shreveport, La., on Aug. 18, 2021. The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus should instead be on COVID-19 hospital admissions. And those aren't climbing as fast. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)</div><div>OAN SPECIAL REPORTS, PEARSON SHARP REPORTS</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>Govt. Data Reveals Over 946K People Suffered Injuries Or Death From COVID-19 Vaccinations</b></div><div>Hundreds of thousands of Americans are reporting strange and troubling side effects after getting injected with COVID-19 vaccines. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.</div><div>
</div><div>People wearing face masks to curb the spread of COVID-19 walk in downtown Lisbon, Monday, Nov. 29, 2021. Portuguese health authorities on Monday identified 13 cases of omicron, the new coronavirus variant spreading fast globally, among members of the Lisbon-based Belenenses SAD soccer club, and were investigating possible local transmission of the virus outside of southern Africa. (AP Photo/Ana Brigida)</div><div>OAN SPECIAL REPORTS, PEARSON SHARP REPORTS</div><div>
</div><div><b>Over 150 Studies Find That Wearing Masks Makes No Difference Stopping The Spread Of The China Virus</b></div><div>As governors rush to reimpose mask mandates to fight the mild Omicron variant, hundreds of studies find that wearing masks does little to nothing to protect you from the coronavirus. One America’s Pearson Sharp has more.</div><div>
</div><div>WHITE OAK, MD - JULY 20: A sign for the Food And Drug Administration is seen outside of the headquarters on July 20, 2020 in White Oak, Maryland. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger/Getty Images)</div><div>OAN SPECIAL REPORTS, PEARSON SHARP REPORTS</div><div>
</div><div><b>FDA Requests Federal Court Grant Them 75 Years To Fully Release Pfizer Vaccine Safety Data</b></div><div>The Food and Drug Administration is requesting a federal judge grant them a full 75 years to review and publish the safety data for <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Pfizer’s China virus vaccine. </span>One America’s Pearson Sharp has more....</div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Right-wing media is subverting American democracy with continued election lies</div><div>09/16/21&nbsp;</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">&nbsp;alarming new poll finds that among Americans&nbsp;who trust Fox News or other far-right media sources such as One America News, 76% falsely believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump — a number far out of kilter from the American mainstream.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Washington Post columnist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/16/prri-poll-fox-news-jan-6-trump/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Greg Sargent</a>&nbsp;reported on the poll from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.prri.org/research/dramatic-partisan-differences-on-blame-for-january-6-riots/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Public Religion Research Institute</a>, which found that only 29% of Americans believe that the election was stolen, compared to 69% who correctly answered that&nbsp;<a href="https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-election-claims-explained-805dd3de1c5e8f1a6a97a13bfec39d97" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">it was not</a>. Furthermore, 56% of respondents said Trump deserved “a lot” of the blame for the January 6 insurrection, when a mob of his supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Sargent further asked the pollster to break out the numbers according to media consumption habits. In addition to the finding that 76% of right-wing media consumers believed the election was stolen,&nbsp;only 12% of those respondents gave Trump a lot of the blame for the January 6 riot.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">“When future historians seek to explain the United States’ perilous slide toward authoritarianism in the 21st century, they will grapple with the role played in all these events by Fox News and the right-wing media,” Sargent wrote. “Simply put, those actors are helping Donald Trump and his movement threaten democracy, in a way that will likely continue getting worse.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">As Media Matters has previously documented, right-wing media outlets played a key role in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/donald-trump-trying-subvert-election-here-list-right-wing-media-voices" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Trump’s efforts to subvert</a>&nbsp;the election results, frequently telling their viewers that Trump had won the election or pushing other lies in an effort to discredit Biden’s clear victory. And in the months after the insurrection, these same right-wing outlets worked to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/right-wing-media-have-waged-full-scale-campaign-cover-events-january-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">rewrite the history</a>&nbsp;of that event and cover up the criminal acts that took place.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">More recently, right-wing media outlets have continued to peddle lies about the election.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Fox News is now facing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/everyone-dominion-smartmatic-suing-defamation-election-conspiracy-theories-2021-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">multibillion-dollar lawsuits</a>&nbsp;against the network from two prominent voting machine companies for&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/it-wasnt-just-sidney-powell-fox-repeated-same-dominion-lies" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the network’s role</a>&nbsp;in helping to spread Trump’s claims that they had artificially changed votes. Meanwhile, the network has legitimized the election lies in subtler ways, with hosts either refusing to disavow them or trying to paper over what the network had done.</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo referred to the January 6 riot as a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/maria-bartiromo/foxs-maria-bartiromo-refers-january-6-attack-peaceful-protest" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“peaceful protest.”</a>&nbsp;(Months earlier, Bartiromo had also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/maria-bartiromo/fox-anchor-maria-bartiromo-supports-trumps-continued-lies-about-2020-election" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">given Trump a platform</a>&nbsp;to continue to lie about the election.)</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Fox News host Pete Hegseth&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/watch-fox-host-pete-hegseths-pathetic-bumbling-response-when-asked-if-donald-trump-lost" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">refused to answer</a>&nbsp;a guest asking him to say that Trump had lost the election, saying: “I’m not — don't really feel any obligation to answer anything for you.”</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">In an interview with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), Fox News anchor Bret Baier&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/bret-baier/fox-news-anchor-bret-baier-covered-networks-role-and-his-own-spreading-trumps-lies-about" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">attempted to whitewash</a>&nbsp;the network’s role — and his own — in having helped to spread Trump’s election lies in late 2020.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Baier also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/bret-baier/fox-news-covers-dc-bomb-scare-suspects-unknown-motives-even-after-he-livestreamed-his" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">helped to cover up the motives</a>&nbsp;of a man who caused a bomb scare in Washington, D.C., and spouted right-wing conspiracy theories including about the election. Baier told viewers that the suspect’s “motive remains unknown” — even after the suspect had livestreamed his false claims&nbsp;and social media videos showed the suspect having taken part in a “Stop the Steal” march.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">When Trump appeared for a phone interview in August, the network initially edited out his election lies from the version that was posted online. Then, following condemnation from Trump’s spokesperson, the network posted a second version&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/choose-your-own-fox-news-network-edited-out-trumps-election-lie-interview-then-uploaded" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">with the lie put back in</a>.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">One of the worst offenders has been the far-right channel One America News. In addition to the role it played in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/even-though-votes-are-still-being-counted-one-america-news-claims-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">propagandizing for Trump’s election lies</a>&nbsp;in late 2020, on January 6 itself the network’s White House correspondent argued that the “protesters” shutting down Congress&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-figures-say-capitol-riots-are-perfect-justification-pence-overturn" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">provided justification</a>&nbsp;for then-Vice President Mike Pence to stop the count of the Electoral College votes.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">In the weeks and months that followed that attack, the network’s hosts&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-continues-push-election-conspiracies-it-seems-possible-biden-wasnt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">have argued</a>&nbsp;that it’s “possible” Biden “wasn't actually elected by the people,” continued to push claims that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-keeps-pushing-conspiracy-theory-computer-programs-changed-votes-2020" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">computer systems changed votes</a>, claimed that the country&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-joe-biden-not-legitimate-president-and-we-do-not-have-legitimate-exec" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">does not have a legitimate executive branch</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-panel-reacts-bidens-address-congress-there-were-lot-dead-people-voted" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">said</a>&nbsp;that “there were a lot of dead people that voted in the last election.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">And just in recent months:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">The network&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/mike-lindell/oan-has-aired-more-22-hours-mike-lindells-election-fraud-scam-symposium-just-two-days" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">aired over 30 hours</a>&nbsp;of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s “cyber symposium,” which sought to offer proof that the election was stolen.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">The network later hosted Lindell for an interview in which he&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/mike-lindell/oan-mike-lindell-promised-second-cyber-symposium-spreading-his-election-lies" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">promised a second symposium</a>&nbsp;and speculated that Trump could be reinstated into office “this fall — I hope in September.”</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Even after&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/oan-insists-upon-election-lies-after-lindell-symposium-and-defamation" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">being sued</a>&nbsp;by a prominent election systems company, the network has continued to promote lies that Trump really won the election.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">OAN host Natalie Harp has rbegun promoting right-wing claims of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-commentators-get-desperate-newest-2020-election-claim" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“unknown” votes</a>&nbsp;that were lost and never counted, even though she has also previously claimed there were&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-media-hype-fake-hearing-arizonas-bogus-election-audit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tens of thousands of extra votes</a>&nbsp;in Arizona.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">The network’s hosts and commentators&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/watch-how-one-oan-host-relentlessly-fundraises-spread-fraudulent-arizona" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">have openly fundraised</a>&nbsp;for the Arizona Senate’s “forensic audit” of the ballots in the state’s largest county, aiming to spread these audits&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/one-america-news-pushes-make-arizonas-so-called-election-audit-americas" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">throughout the country</a>.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">OAN commentator Pearson Sharp has speculated that the audits would&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/one-america-news-network/how-oan-figures-call-mass-executions-connected-arizona-ballot-audit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">lead to the mass executions</a>&nbsp;of election officials.</li></ul><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">Newsmax also told its viewers to be&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1330528727009275904" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“suspicious”</a>&nbsp;about the election results and spread&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1327083738279399428" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">claims about voting machines</a>&nbsp;changing the results. (The network is now&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2021/08/10/dominion-sues-oan-newsmax/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">also being sued</a>.) The network also promoted various methods of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-pivots-faithless-electors" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">overturning the Electoral College results</a>, or even sending&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-disgraced-gen-mike-flynn-calls-trump-send-military-swing-states-and-basically-rerun" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">the military into the states</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-declares-election-not-over-despite-electoral-college-certification" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">repeatedly pushed</a>&nbsp;the idea&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-i-do-believe-there-significant-chance-donald-trump-could-be-inaugurated" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">that Trump</a>&nbsp;might&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-i-have-very-strong-conviction-still-somehow-some-way-donald-trump-will" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">still prevail</a>. And on January 6, the network’s hosts also suggested that&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-suggests-leftist-groups-may-have-infiltrated-violent-pro-trump-rioters-stormed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">“leftist groups”</a>&nbsp;and philanthropist&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-guest-suggests-george-soros-behind-insurrectionists-storming-capitol" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">George Soros</a>&nbsp;were really behind the attack on the U.S. Capitol.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;">In recent months:</p><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">The channel ran ads for Lindell’s “cyber symposium”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-airs-mike-lindells-cyber-symposium-ad-over-170-times-single-week" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">over 170 times in a single week</a>&nbsp;and, in a further publicity stunt, sent a correspondent to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-send-correspondent-picket-fox-news-not-running-mike-lindells-cyber-symposium-ad" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">picket Fox News</a>&nbsp;for having refused to run the ad.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Newsmax host&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-i-still-have-concerns-about-election-2020-and-its-okay-have-concerns" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Greg Kelly</a>&nbsp;has said: “I still have concerns about the election of 2020, and it's okay to have concerns, all right?” Kelly also&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-host-praises-mike-lindell-committed-finding-out-what-really-happened-2020-election" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">praised Lindell</a>&nbsp;for being “committed to finding out what really happened in the 2020 election.” (What really happened: Joe Biden won.)</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">Just this week, Newsmax host&nbsp;<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/grant-stinchfield/newsmax-host-says-president-trump-would-still-be-office-if-it-wasnt-mail-ballot" style="box-sizing: border-box; background: transparent; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Grant Stinchfield</a>&nbsp;claimed that “President Trump would still be in office” were it not for a “mail-in ballots scheme” by Democrats.</li><li aria-level="1" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 2.4rem; position: relative;">----</li></ul></div><div>OAN keeps pushing bizarre and dangerous misinformation about COVID-19 and vaccines</div><div>09/03/21 7:06 AM EDT</div><div>A grayed image of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell with a backdrop of predominantly blue OAN logos, and, to the right, a ballot being inserted into a drop box.</div><div>OAN ran ads for Mike Lindell’s nonsense “cyber symposium” more than 150 times in just one week</div><div>08/06/21 10:44 AM EDT</div><div>A stylized graphic of two hypodermic needles breaking apart, flanked by partially translucent OAN logos on either side, all against an orange background.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div>OAN’s months-long campaign against COVID-19 vaccines</div><div>08/02/21 12:44 PM EDT</div><div>Covid vaccine red</div><div>Right-wing media is an echo chamber of anti-vaccine messaging</div><div>07/20/21 4:38 PM EDT</div><div>Voting Arizona</div><div>Right-wing media hype fake “hearing” on Arizona’s bogus election audit</div><div>07/17/21 8:43 AM EDT</div><div>January 6 attack on Capitol building</div><div>Six months after January 6, right-wing media have waged a full-scale campaign to cover up the events</div><div>07/06/21 7:05 AM EDT</div><div>one-america-pearson-sharp-execution-democrats-election-06-23-2021</div><div>How an OAN figure’s call for mass executions is connected to the Arizona ballot “audit”</div><div>06/24/21 4:51 PM EDT</div><div>An OAN anchor against a generic sunrise background, with chyron reading "Mich. Atty DePerno: Dems Threaten, Obstruct Election Fraud Lawsuit" with lower chyron reading "Says Democrat Officials Deleted Election Data In Violation Of Law, Files More Subpoenas"</div><div>One America News keeps lying about Dominion Voting Systems</div><div>04/15/21 10:21 AM EDT</div><div>OAN correspondent Pearson Sharp standing above a chyron reading "FBI 'can't find proof' of antifa involvement in Jan. 6th protests, despite mountains of video evidence"</div><div>OAN responds to FBI director with desperate “antifa” conspiracy theory about Capitol insurrection</div><div>03/03/21 2:59 PM EST</div><div>One America News correspondent Pearson Sharp against a relatively plain, OAN-branded light blue background.</div><div>OAN correspondent claimed all of the network's reporting “relies strictly on the facts.” He's repeatedly lied about the 2020 election.</div><div>02/24/21 4:45 PM EST</div><div>Image of former Trump lawyer Sidney Powell and microphones with Fox News written on them</div><div>It wasn’t just Sidney Powell. Fox repeated the same Dominion lies.</div><div>01/21/21 1:40 PM EST</div><div>Pearson Sharp alleges that Joe Biden was not democratically elected</div><div>OAN continues to push election conspiracies: “It seems possible” Biden “wasn't actually elected by the people”</div><div>01/20/21 12:50 PM EST</div><div>OAN Fox Newsmax</div><div>In a preview of the next four years, right-wing media refuse to admit that Joe Biden is the president-elect</div><div>12/17/20 11:59 AM EST</div><div>Tucker Carlson claiming Soros funds "radical DA's"</div><div>Right-wing media falsely blame George Soros for violence and protests</div><div>10/07/20 12:21 PM EDT</div><div>OAN_Seth_Rich.png</div><div>One America News pushes shameful Seth Rich conspiracy theory</div><div>05/19/17 6:26 PM EDT</div><div>ppfa6614.jpg</div><div>Right-Wing Media’s Favorite Myths About Planned Parenthood</div><div>10/17/16 6:26 PM EDT</div><div>Daniel is traveling tonight on a plane...</div><div>02/12/07 3:31 PM EST</div></div><div><font color="#000000"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>